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BELGIAN CABINET'S RESIGNATION
BRUSSELS, TO-DAY. Catholic Party, while agreeing to THE BELGIAN CABINET some of the new taxes which HAS RESIGNED, AND IT IS cover more than half the deficit, BELIEVED THAT FORMATION demanded large Government eco- OF A NEW MINISTRY WILL nomies.-Reuter.. PRESENT GREAT DIFFICUL-
TY.
The Foreign Minister, M. Spaak, is mentioned as probable successor to Janson.
SEVEN-MONTHS LIFE
Brussels, To-day.
The Janson Cabinet offered its the Premier, M. resignation yesterday afternoon. The King accepted the resignation. The Janson. Cabinet, which was The crisis was due to a differ- formed on October 23, last year ence in party opinion about how after the resignation
to meet the Budget deficit.
The Labour Party was in vour of new taxation, and
DOUBLE FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR SUICIDE COUPLE
of the Van Zeeland Cabinet, was a Coalition fa-ists, Liberals.
Government of Catholics, Social- the
funeral
An impressive double service was held on Monday last at the Bubbling Well Cemetery
in
Of its members four including the Prime Minister were Liberals, six Socialists and five Catholics.
The Minister of War, General Denize, did not belong to any poli- tical party. Political quarters here believe that Janson will not accept a mandate to form a new Govern- ment if he should be asked to do so by the King.
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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY Shanghai for the late Mr. Henry Colonies, M. Tschoffen, are regard-
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LEONID KINSKEY
The Foreign Minister, M. Spaak and the former Minister for
ed as the most likely candidates for the Premiership. The former daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Premier, M. Jaspar and the former Thompson, the
Minister for National Defence, M.
Hufner, city editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, and Miss Violet Ethel Thompson,
young engaged
their lives within a few hours of each other.
couple, who so tragically ended Deveze, are other possibilities.
Parliamentary quarters hope that the new Government will be form- ed before the week-end but it is realised that considerable difficul- ties will have to be overcome before the formation of the Government is accomplished:-Trans-Ocean.
The late Miss Thompson, who was employed as a private secretary at the Foreign Y.M.C.A., and who was only 23 years of age, died at the Country Hospital after she al- legedly swallowed poison. Mr. Huf ner ended his life in a death leap
from the roof of the Navy Y.M.C.A SHANGHAI EQUALS
on Szechuen Road. The double funeral
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2 | TO-MORROW AND MONDAY with the last request of Mr. Hufner, HONG KONG RECORD
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An event, unique it is believed,' DEAN TRIVETT OFFICIATES
in foreign circles in Shanghai oc- Miss Thompson is survived by week, when Mrs. H. C. Timms gave curred in the Country Hospital this her parents, Mr. and Mrs.-J.-Abirth to triplets, two boys and a Thompson, brothers, Charles and girl. Dr. E. G. Gauntlett, who at Geoffrey, sister, Beatty, and aunt, tended mother and children, is of Mrs. E. Ling. It is believed that the belief that this is the first in- Mr. Hufner leaves his father, three stance in the annals of Shanghai, brothers and three sisters in New where triplets were born by a for- York City.
eign' mother. Mr. Timms is with the S.M.P., being attached to Gor- The Reverend Dean A.C.S. don Road Police Station. Mrs. Trivett of the Holy Trinity Cathe-Timms, the former Majorie Fraser. dral conducted the services, assist came from Victoria, B.C., several ed by Mr. P. H. Rumberg at the years ago, while Mr. Timms comes organ, who rendered a prelude and from Nottinghamshire, postlude. A beautiful cross of roses from "Violet's Mummie and Papa" was lowered on each casket, and a cushion of sweet peas from a close friend, "Helen," rested upon Miss Thompson's casket.
From the Chapel the late Miss Thompson's casket led the cortege to the grave, and was carried by Messrs. Archie Logan, Len Bright, Allan Kew, Johnny Leriou, Lionel Kew and Charlie Bowern. The pallbearers for the late Mr. Hufner were Messrs. M. C. Ford, Joe Morang, G. A. Johansson, G. C. Bruce, L. Z. Yuan and Frank Bur- ton, all associates of the deceased from the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. Between the two cas- kets, as a mutual friend, walked Mr. La Selle. Gilman, a close friend of Mr. Hufner and also a fellow worker at the Evening Post.
The caskets in the Chapel were surrounded by flowers from im- medfate relatives and close friends."
Had not the hostilities
caused
children from Shanghai at the end a hasty evacuation of women and of last August, the honour of being Shanghai's first triplets might have Shinn, also English. Their births gone to the children of Mrs. W. are now recorded in the annals of Hong Kong, not Shanghai.
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