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Death of Admiral Grace
FORMER HONG KONG
COMMODORE
THE DEATH HAS OCCUR- RED OF ADMIRAL HENRY EDGAR GRACE, COMMODORE AT HONG KONG FROM 1922. TO 1924, AT THE AGE OF 61.
Admiral Grace reached the rank of lieutenant in 1896 and became Commander ten years later.
In the year before the War he went on a world cruise in HMS. War New Zealand and when the broke out was a captain..
During the War he commanded the Grafton, Yarmouth, Birkenhead and the second Vindictively to
From 1920 to 1921 he was Pre- sident of the sub-commission of the Inter-Allied Naval Control in Ber-
lin.
A.D,C. TO LATE KING
In 1522 he came to Hong Kong as Commodore and stayed in the Colony until the end of 1924, when he was appointed A. D. C. to the late King George V.
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B. & S. TUG SENDS OUT DISTRESS SIGNALS
Wrecked On Island Fifty Miles from Woosung
Another China coast vessel has gone aground and is in serious difficulties.
SHE IS THE "CHANGTEH A 244TON SEA-GOING TUG
OWNED BY BUTTERFIELD AND SWIRE,
THE TUG IS FAST AGROUND TWENTY MILES NORTH OF FIFTY MILES OUT FROM THE MOUTH OF THE YANGISEN
THE ISLAND OF SHAWEISHAN BETWEEN FORTY AND
America And The Next War
New York, To-day.
Only meagre information is contained in a Reuter cable -re- ceived in Hong Kong this morn-
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Gas Poisons 290 In Band Mine
Johannesburg,
One of the worst gass cidents in the history of Witwatersrand gold mining dustry occurred yesterday when forty Europeans and 250. tives were overcom
None of the Europeans are in danger but some mortality was caused
among the natives. The gas, caused an outbreak of fire-Beuter.
Fire In Sit Down Strike Factory
Detroit
ing from Manila, where an S.O.S.Fire broke out in a motor message from the distressed tug tory here occupied by side was picked up at 3.40 this morn strikers yesterday ing.
The me sage, which rea
Be
mediate
that the tug's plight
It is probable that high sea running and that the crew able to get ashore on the bited and barren island.
In 1925 he was promoted Bear Admiral and in 1927 was Rear-Ad-
A warning that America should miral Submarines for two years not attempt to hide in the "storm In 1926 he was made Commander cellar of neutrality in the event of of the Bath.
war abroad, was uttered by the Se In 1930 he was promoted Vice- Admiral and placed on the retiredcretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hall, before the House of Representatives list Four years later he retired
appropriations sub-committee yes- with the rank of Admiral
terday. Among Admiral. Grace's Orders and decorations were the Order of He said he thought "we should St. Anne of Russia, the Order of preserve none of those war-breeding ed in Hong Kong the Redeemer of Greece and the dangers in the way of neutral rights Croix de Guerre, with palm.
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TOWED LIGHTERS The "Changteh” was built in Shanghai and is employed by But- terfield and Sire in towing light- ers from Shanghai up the Tangtse
No information as to why she was so far out to sea can be obtain
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that we have been exercising, and .......................................... which got us into serious trouble" but that did not mean that in the Admiral Grace, who was the se- care of war they should look for a cond son of one of the greatest storm cellar somewhere and abandon cricketers of all time, the late Dr.all their neutral rights. W. G. Grace, was one of Hong They must take a broad view of Kong's most popular Commodores the situation and maintain neutral- He took the keenest interest in ity as far as practical, but do not cricket and was a member of let them delude themselves with the the MC, Chile his daughters idea that it was a sure guarantee won fame in the Colony 28 swim- of keeping out of the next war. mers, and on the tennis court.
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