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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1935
AWARDS FOR
BRAVERY IN ATLANTIC GALE
Rescue Of Usworth Crew Recalled
ALBERT MEDAL FOR MAN WHO PERISHED
London, To-day HM the King has made a posthumous award of the AL- bert Medal given only in cases of exceptional gallantry and de- votion to Thomas Gibson, late cook of the ss. Usworth, for! life-saving at sea.
Pieces of plate and other Jawards have also been made to the masters and the various of ficers and members of the crew of the Belgian vessel sa: Jesu Jadot and the Cunard-White Star liner Ascanis, who displayed
Martin Mooney, the New York American reporter, is taken to Tombs Prison in handcuffs after being sentenced to 30 days for contempt. He would not reveal the sources of his information în the sensational racket, expose. Mooney was released after 10 minutes, pending appeal
great bravery and skill in saving MR. EDEN'S MEETING
the Usworth during a violent gale
in mid-Atlantic last December.
Two members of the crew of the Jean Jadot.
were
drown.
ed when the lifeboat wES |
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FRENCH WAR
VETERANS VISIT
STUTTGART
Efforts To Secure. Understanding
EMPRESSIVE RECEPTION
CHINA NÄIL " SPECIAL
Stuttgart Today.
A noteworthy effort to pro-i mote a Franco-German under- standing based on mutual res pect and equality of rights be gan yesterday with the recep tion here of 50 French war veterans, who will be the guests 1or one week of the famous in- dustrialist Robert Bosch, when! they will visit many places of interest in Schwabia. All the guests were more or less seri-" Jously wounded during the world
war
Conspicuous among the hosts were Herr Robert Bosch himself, the regional leader. Herr Schmidt. ! [and numerous leaders of the Steel Helmets and Reichswehr Generals.
"Great" enthusiasm was aroused
capsized and posthumous awards There are signs in the Ita-The guests belong to the war have been made in their case. Î]
lian press, however, that while veterans organisation, totalling Gibson, the Usworth's cook, Italy is critical of the alleged 180,000 members. gave his life in trying to save a lindependent manner in which mess-room boy. He was a strong Britain- has acted and dis-jby a telègram received from the swimmer and was within a stroke approves of the methods used in Anglo-German congress at Brigh- or two of the lifeboat which the reaching agreement with Ger-ton to the Franco-German congress Ascania bad launched when the many, the actual agreement is at Stuttgart. The slogan adopted was: “Old" front-trench. veterans boy cried for help and Gibsonjregarded with satisfaction turned back for him, both being According to the official view want peace, because they want įswept away.
the Abyssinian question is not their children to live"
Yesterday's proceedings ended expected to be discussed, unless The Ascania's lifeboat was Mr. Eden has brought from the with the singing of the Marsell- commanded with great skill and British Government concrete laise and the two German national courage by Lieutenant Pollitt, proposals to solve it. It is un-ymns Dertschland Uber Alles Royal Naval Reserve, junior third ;derstood that the Italian Gov-and the Horst Wessel hymn. officer of the Ascania, in circum-jernment would welcome any Trans-Ocean Service.. istances of extreme peril. It was positive suggestion helping to several times nearly smashed by solve the dispute by enabling
-Lifeboat. Epic
the Usworth or the Ascania. Italy to attain certain terri- We are in receipt of a copy ofį
The gale was so violent that torial concessions-
Cars, forced from the rowlocks,
BRIEF BRITISH REPLY
Paris, To-day-
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of the men's were blown out jhands. and all but six were! |broken, while the lifeboat, at one!
moment in the trough of the A brief British reply to the Signor Mussolini. They lunched SHOWINGS steep waves, was at the next level French Government's note on the together in the interval. Mr. with the Usworth's boat deck Anglo-German agreement has Eden was accompanied by the Nevertheless, the remainder of been received at the Quai d'Orsay, British Ambassador at Rome, Sir the crew were taken off and with It suggests the utility of a naval Eric Drummond
difficulty got aboard the conference before the end of the A communique issued this Ascania. Mr. Pollitt, after what year in view of the expiration of evening stated that they dis- is officially described as a "heroic the Washington Treaty.
cussed the Anglo-German naval
vice.
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