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(18th edition) 1936
The China Year Book is an in- dispensable reference book" oN- China; it arms its reader with allTM material necessary for forming correct judgments
Far on the
embodies
Eastern
situation and
all important · documents
statistics, of the year.
and
the
Life Three-
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts in the eighteeth edition are following: Smuggling, Tangku Truce
"New Agreement, Weekly" Incident, Hirota Point Programme, Soviet-Outer Mongolia Protocol, Mongol_Ter- ritory in Manchukuo, Leith- Ross Mission, CurrencyPosition, etc..
Price $18.
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IVE FRENCH REMEDY
RAPION No. ERAPION: No.2 APION NO.3
Carnage
Toledo
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1937.
At BAD MOTOR
Heavy Losses By Loyalists
London, To-day.
The Spanish insurgents claim
SMASH
Mr. Frost Better This Morning FRACTURED SKULL
Mr. P. C. Frost, of Butterfield that the Government forces lost and Swire, who was critically in- 3,000 dead and wounded during jured in a motor accident in Water- their recent attack on Toledo, loo Road yesterday afternoon, was according to a message received reported by the Kowloon Hospital authorities this morning to be much
here.
The Government troops, in improved.
Mr. W. G. Schnabel, the driver, spite of being able to dominate the city with their artillery, were who was trapped in the car when forced to retreat to their second it overturned, has been discharged
from hospital. line of defence.
The mishap occurred near Vic- Another bulletin issued in Sala-tory Avenue, the car, according to manca claims that General Franco's eye-witnesses, first skidding violent- forces have captured the mountain ly and then somersaulting several
atimes. heights of Vizcarguil, and that
the process.
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loyalist battalion was annihilated in Mr. Frost, who was sitting be- side the driver, was flung out of fell into the nullah the car and The Republicans, it is claimed, lost over 1,000 dead and 2,500 with a sickening thud. The nullah is about 12 feet deep, and he must wounded.
From the Andalusian frontier have crashed from a height of 15 comes a report of the destruction of feet. the famous monuments of Granada.
-Trans-Ocean and Reuter.
TO-NIGHT'S BALL
Six Hundred Guests Expected At The Hong Kong Club
"
The first function of this descrip- tion to be held for many years, the Hong Kong Club are contributing to the Coronation festivities with a Ball to be held this evening. About 600 people are expected to be pre- sent on this unique occasion.
Considerable to the
damage was done somersaults The car. smashed in both its sides and the sunshine roof was almost a wreck.
total
Both men were rushed to Kow- loon Hospital, and Mr. Frost was stated to be suffering from a frac- tured skull.
R.A.F. PLANE HITS TOWER
Pilot Killed During Night Flying
Was
An R.A.F. pilot, Sergt. John Al- of No. 66 Fighter The main hall and the Reading fred Wardle, Room have been cleared for dan-Squadron, Duxford, Cambs, cing, while the spacious verandahs killed in a remarkable crash dur- overlooking the sea and the City ing night flying exercises at Brent illuminations, will provide ideal Pelham, Hunts. sitting-out accommodation.
His single-seater machine struck
Union Jacks, prominently display-a 60ft. high water tower. It was by ed in all parts of the building, a stripped of wheels and wings replica of the Royal Arms on the the impact and the tank was pier- stairway, flags, streamers and bril-ced, water cateracting down into a liant illuminations, will make the kennel yard. event one of the most outstanding (of the Coronation festivities.
The body of the machine somer- saulted across a road and came to a standstill near a hedge.
Landed Upside Down The noise of the crash was heard Lord Glanely has divided £30,000 over a wide area. The wreckage among twenty-four institutions
of the 'plane landed upside down Coronation gift.
and men with choppers worked for extricate the A mysterious whistling in one of nearly an hour to the court rooms at the Old Bailey was pilot.
by traced to a microphone used
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Although the kennel yard strewn with parts of the machine they did not strike four houses near the tower, or the kennels where. hounds from the Puckeridge Hunt were quartered.
is
Mrs. L. Dalton, whose house about a quarter of a mile away, said: “I was awakened by a terrific roar and then a queer sounding and bang. My husband got up went to the kennels, to find parts of an aeroplane strewn all over the place.
WAS
"The yard.
littered with pieces of debris and the wings. The body of the machine was all that remained.
"The pilot was underneath and had to be cut out.. One of the wheels of the 'plane was found in the tank of the water tower."
The man who taught Lord Kitchener to ride a horse, Major David Gillon, of Barcombe-avenue, Streatham, buried six weeks before he would have celebrated his 100th birthday.
was