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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1939.
KING
AND EXCITING
HAVE
QUEEN EXPERIENCE
SOAKED WHEN TINY BOAT BREAKS DOWN IN STORM
London, Yesterday.
The Empress of Britain yesterday passed safely through the iceberg zone, says a wireless mes- sage from Reuter's special correspondent on board the Royal liner.
When the liner emerged from the zone at 3 o'clock in the afternoon Their Majesties were resting after their greatest personal adventure of the tour.
This occurred when they paid a visit to the three
escorting cruisers on Saturday night.
800-YEAR-OLD TOWN TO BE SUBMERGED
Moscow, To-day.
The Soviet Government has de- cided that the 800-year old town of Mologa, on the River Volga, its entire neighbourhood shall
build .submerged in order to
reservoir and power station
Rybinsk.
town.
and
be
the
of
Their Majesties went on board a ferryboat towards the cruiser Glas-
gow.
ARMY TO
MOVE INTO TENTS
London, Yesterday.
To make room for reservists and recruits, Regular Army battalions all over Britain are to go under canvas towards the end of this month.-Our Own Correspondent.
DRIVERLESS CARS IN TEST CRASH Steered By Electric Controls
OLD OFFENDER
TO SUFFER
With 12 previous convictions on various offences, a Police super- viseė, Liu Chin-chi, 32, was this morning sentenced to 12 months' hard labour and 12 strokes by Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon when charged with larceny of a handbag containing $61 from a woman in Prince Edward Road.
1
Six months' hard labour and 12 strokes were imposed on Lam Tak- hong, 21, for snatching a pair of
gold earrings from a woman in
Shanghai Street yesterday,
MASS-MURDERER GUILLOTINED
Paris, To-day. Two cars crashed in a head-on colli-
Ernest Weidmann, the Ger- sion at 30 m.p.h. at Oxford recently. One spun round with only a bent axle man mass-murderer, who mur- and burst tyre, the other was thrown dered 11 men and women for over on its side. The driver, had there Owing to the strong wind, Glas-been one, would almost certainly have trifling sums, was executed early on Saturday morning at Ver- gow had been ordered to leave her been killed.
sailles. moorings alongside the other crui-
a
&
Actually nobody was hurt, for the
Throughout the night the The collision was sers and the Empress of Britain cars were empty.
staged at the Cowley Works of Morris scaffold was surrounded by five miles down the bay and to pro-Motors before the directors and chief curious crowd, among them
engineers to test two methods of con- great number of women. ceed to meet the ferryboat.
Police drove the crowd away,
As Glasgow approached, Their Majesties transferred on board
struction.
Both cars were Morris Tensa red and spectators only obtained a a 1938 model, with body bolted on the long-distance view of the pro-
Trans-Ocean.
small naval motorboat to go along-chassis in the conventional way, and a ceedings. side the cruiser.
DRIFT HELPLESSLY
of
After bumping and ploughing through the waves, the engines the tiny craft suddenly stopped, and of it was found that the propellor was
caught in fishing-nets.
The population of the Mologa in 1936 numbered 6,000.
At the present moment, a film town. .company is busy filming the
and its cultural treasures before the town finally disappears beneath the
waters.Trans-Ocean.
DUTCH EXPERT'S BODY TO BE SENT HOME
Kunming, To-day.
The encoffined remains of M. conservancy Bourdrez, the Dutch
death in. expert who met his
For several minutes the boat drifted helplessly, and then another Navy boat came alongside, and the King jumped on board and helped the Queen over.
blue car of the new Series M, intro- duced last September, in which body frame and chassis frame are one, built | up of units welded together.
Steered by Electricity
NUDE WOMAN
INSANE
Yiu Sau-ying, who was
found
Facing each other 150 yards apart, each car was started at a given signal nude in Murray Barracks and who with second gear engaged, throttle claimed she had been attacked, ap- open and no one on board. They were peared again before Mr. R. A. D. steered by electrical controls from a
Forrest at the Central Magistracy central point.
this morning.
On the first run the cars missed each
Inspector A. V. Baker said the other, but on the next try there was no mistake. They met with a crash at woman had been certified insane, about 80 m.p.h., each near side front and the case was adjourned sine wheel striking the centre of the other die. vehicle's front axle.
Afterwards, the party re-embark- and ed on the heaving motorboat
Theoretically the old red car should like a strip of tin, and the body wren- sped towards the cruiser Southamp-have come off best, for it had about ched off the frame all along the side. 300lb. extra weight behind its blow, but ton.
while the blue car was damaged the red one was nearly wrecked.
WET BUT CHEERFUL
The new blue car after an examina-' tion by the Morris service engineers, suffered only one-quarter the amount bonnet of damage-axle, wheel and Not only did it turn over, but its en- side mainly, all of which could be made boat tire frame was distorted longitudinally, good and a new front section welded soaked all members of the party the front axle bent into a half-moon, in place, whereas the frame of the
the front spring broken and twisted] other car would have to be scrapped.
Waves crashing over
the
who were unable to cram into the tiny cabin.
Despite the bad weather Their to a Majesties were determined not surveying mishap in the treacherous disappoint the officers and crew of waters of the Gold Sand River in the cruisers, and went through the west Yunnan last month, are being whole programme, afterwards visit-! sent here for shipment to his own ing H. M. S. Berwick, country.
M. Bourdrez's body was recover- ed near Sintangwan on May 28, and was identified despite its advanced -condition of decomposition by a gold; ring on his finger engraved with his initials.-Central News.
PUPPET CHIEF'S DEATH RUMOUR
Chungking, To-day.
The King and Queen returned to but the Empress of Britain wet cheerful.-Reuter.
The B.I. steamship Santhia left Singapore on Friday and is due in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
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