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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.
King's Tour of Devastated
Districts In Bristol THAILAND
MURDER OF JUDGE
TALK WITH
LITTLE AIR ACTIVITY MAL
D'HOOGHE WOMAN WHO WAS OVER BRITAIN
The murder last even- ing of Judge Edouard d'Hooghe, 70-year-old logal .adviser of the French Municipal Coun-
BURIED FOR HOURS
STANDING ON A HEAP of blackened cil and one of Shanghai's ruins in Bristol yesterday the King talked to leading French citizens, was one of the most vici- a woman whose home lay in ruins and who ous and sensational in the was carrying her baby daughter in her arms. city's history.
Judge d'Hooghe was shot dead by a Chinese nour his home the French Concession.
It is not known whether the murder was political.
As Legal Adviser, the Judge
had a loading part in the negotia - tions which roeulted In tho recent transfer of the jurisdic.
ion of the Nanking regime. The gunman escaped after the erine, which has shocked Shang-
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Judge d'Honghe was Judge the French Cunsular Court
1932-Reuter.
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The woman told the King how she, with three other daughters and the baby, were buried for hours beneath tons of bricks, tiles and broken glass when Bristol had its big bombing attack recently.
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The King travelled several | **Coronation” miles through the city to see the devastation caused by the recent raids, and at several points where be left his ear he was completely surrounded by cheering men and women, many of whom shouted "We are not downhearted, bless your Majesty,"
The King received a "Corona- tlon" welcome as he drove to inspect the city's wreckage.
Along streets in the suburbs, as well as in the centre of the city, God | crowds stood waving flags and cheering as the King drove past. The tour included a visit to Amongst scones el damage Bristol University, where theemised by indiscriminate bombing King inspected damage to the the King visited a working-class Great Hall and was cheered by | housing estate where several a crowd
of mer and women houses had been hit.
students.
EX-CHIEF JUSTICE OF CEYLON DEAD
Sir Philip MacDonnell, former- ly Judge of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia and afterwards The King also had a meeting Chief Justice of Trinidad and with Queen Mary, who is now Inter Chief Justice of Ceylon, living in the West Country, and died at Southport, England, of who gave the King her good bronchitis yesterday. —Reuter. I wishes on his birthday. — Reuter.
NINE SERVICE MEN DROWN AFTER DANCE
NINE MEN of the Services, who had attended a dance at St. Mawes (Cornwall) are believed to have lost their lives through the capsizing of a boat. Ten soldiers and two sailors were in the little craft -a 12ft. dinghy with an outboard motor and three were rescued. Three bodies have been re- covered.
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The party left the dance to re-, Matthews, Gunners Kidd turn to St. Anthony after mid-Mullin, and Petty Officers W. Reed night, and when in the centre of and T. N. Elliott. the river off Polvarth Point the boat capsized the sank.
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His Majesty was greeted by thousands of schoolchildren and their parents who lined the estate roads.
The King also visited -the city's two main shopping streets where practically every build- ing for over a quarter of a mile had heen completely destroyed.
The King spoke to many A.R.P. workers, congratulating four A.F.S. men who had been award- ed the George Cross...
His Majesty lunched nt Re- gional Headquarters with Queen Mary, who motored to Bristol specially to meet him. - British Wireless.
PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA
An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Se- curity communique issued last evening stated: "Enemy activ- ity during to-day has been confined to G small number of single aircraft. Some of these penetrated into East Anglia ond south-east England. A few bombs are re- ported in these areas but they caused little damage and few casualties." British Wireless.
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BORDER FRICTION
The integrity of Indo- China is to be maintain-
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| ed absolutely intact, says statement issued in Vichy yesterday by the French Ministry of Co- lonies in connection with the Thailand frontier'ân- cidents.
Complaining about the fro- quent border raids In which "Intolerable attacks on Indo- Chinese persons and property" were made, and French and na- tives even killed, and recalling that Thai 'planes bombed sever- al Indo-Chinese locpilttes, the official statement says that 85 reprisal Indo-Chinese aircraft "dropped bombs on an equival- ent number of Siamese locall- tles."
The statement concludes: "The Government of Thailand will doubtless not delay in reducing to order these unfortunate. ·exm cursions of pirates, or leaders of military units at a distance from Bangkok:"-Router.
EXTRALITY IN
CHINA TO GO WHEN WAR IS OVER
THE BRITISH AND American Governments have agreed in principle to relinquish their extra- territorial rights in China at the end of Sino-Japan- ese hostilities, Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Foreign Minis- ter, revealed in a speech at the Weekly Memorial Service yesterday morning.
Dr. Wang declared that Japan's ostrich policy will hasten her downfall and expedite the realisa- tion of China's war aims, namely, maintenance of her racial existence and national independence and preservation of international justice as well as the abolition of the unequal treaties.
Dr. Wang said that Japan's al- the abolition of American
and liance with the Axis Powers had British extraterritorial rights in falled to intimidate Britain and China under peaceful conditions. THE MOSLEM PILGRIMAGE America and had also failed to With the passing of extraterri- TO MECCA FROM INDIA AND extricate her from the China toriality. Dr. .Wang said, China BRITISH EAST AFRICA IS quagmire. Japan's signing of a will discard her semi-colonial AGAIN BEING ASSISTED BY so-called treaty with Wang Ching-status but China will definitely re- THE Fatal Short Cut
CON- wei was an attempt to decelve frain from any anti-foreign CERNED, BOTH FINANCIALLY | herself that the China war had tlon.-Central News, The soldiers had to return from | AND BY THE PROVISION OF been settled. the dance to an isolated headland SHIPPING FACILITIES, island, several miles away by road, but a comparatively short distance across the water,
GOVERNMENTS
Amongst those taking part the arduous journey, which
Meanwhile, America, Britain and Russia have increased their in material and financial assistance for to China and have relterated that
Mr. Cyrl Green, of St. Mawes, heard the shouts of the men in the water, and put out in his boat. He located two soldiers with the aid of a torch and brought two ashore, but one of them died soon afterwards. The two sailors volunteered to many means a lengthy sea pas-Chungking is China's recognised The three bodies recovered were take them in the dinghy, which sage only made possible by Bri-National Government, those of Gunter Charles Hughes, they were using to carry them tish seapower, is Sayyed Abdulla twenty-nine, ¡Gunner John Beard, |„back to a naval patrol ship.. Shah, Inam of the mosque at thirty-six, Stoke-on-Trent, and About half a mile from the Nairobi. His first pilgrimage took Gunner Habbajam, thirty-five. shore high waves overturned the place 47 years ago. All were married.
craft and the men were thrown. The missing men are Sergeant into the water in the darkness. Expressing appreciation of the Government's action he said: "This help which is being given our pilgrims demonstrates the love which the British Government bears towards the Moslem world." -British Wireless.
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CHEERFUL TONE ON STOCK MARKET
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Enterprise in indusitial tions on the London Stock Ex- 'chufigo 'yesterday' ́was lacking., otherwise conditions were "<ChGDE-} Tul. Gill-edged, Indian loung Egyptian, Portuguese and Greel :boncis · registered fuller gains, while oil continued in favour, though little profit-taking oc- casionally reduced carllor nd- vances, Kaairs. after early local support, finished # irregular. Home Industrials gen- erully were quiet. Wall - Sweeti as quielly, Irregular Rainier,
HELLENIC TRADER GOES INTO DOCK
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"The fact is that America,. The Panama vessel, s.s., Helleni Britain and Russla, who are vi- Trader, which went aground in tally interested in the future of the Hainan Straits on December the Pacific, have cooperated with 3, is now in dock in Hong Kong --China in checking Japanéss ag» | undergoing repairs whicir are ex- grónsión,” Dr. Wang pointed out. pected to be completed within 10 Dr. Wang declared that Mr. days. Sumner Welles and Mr. Winston The vessel arrived in the Churchill have agreed to discuss Colony on Saturday night.
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