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SEQUEL TO AIR
DISASTER
Madame Renard's Jewels
(Special Air Mail Service)
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ROYAL NAVY
Conimand Of The Pegasus
(Special Air Mail Service)
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
Wednesday, April 24 Auctions. Sale of Crown Landi, District Office. Taipo, 11.30 am:
Cinemas King's-Anne Of Green Gables!" Queen's:-"Double Door.” Central:-"The Lives of A Bengal
Lancer."
Of A
London: April, `3. Captain K. S. 0 Nicholson, London, April 3,
D.S.C, whose appointment to the Notice has been sent to under-Pegasus is announced, wat relieve writers at Lloyd's of the possibility Captain A. W. La T. Bisset in com- Oriental:-The World Changes." of a claim being made under a po mand from Thursday next. Cap World:-"A Demon For Trouble."
Lives licy Insuring for 8,000,000 francstain G. L. Warren, who was origin Alhambra:-"The
Bengal Lancer." (£85.000) Jewellery which belossally chosen for this command, will ed to Mme. Renard.
receive an appoinment elsewhere. Majestic:-"Babes In Toyland."
Star:-"The Fortunate Fool." The Pegasus (formerly called the
Entertainments-Grand Enter- Ark Royal) is the oldest and small- est of the aircraft carriers, and stainment and Dance, St. Andrew's now used for catapult trials and Hall &.43 p.m. training. This is one of the few captains commands añost Which are usually held for one year.
With her husband, the Governor of French Equatoriai Africa, Mme. Renard perished in an aeroplane accident' on the side of the Cong River
Seven persons were killed when the Belgian plane in which they were travelling erashed in a Con- 2 week ago. Áme. go swump
Renard was formerly the widow of Mr. Michael Winburn, American soap manufactures...-
Captain Nicholson has attended the N. War College since his
promotion in June last up to
which time he was executive of
Meelings.--Annual, Hong Kong Engineering and Construction Co, Ltd., Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews Offices, noon; Alice. Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals, Chamber of Commerce, 5 p.m.
Miscellaneous.Whist Drive. Seamen's Institute, 9 pm: Meet
p.m...
When she accompanied ner bus. cer of HMS. Revenge in the Medi- ing for Mediaton" conducted by terranea. He served during the Dr. Reichelt, at the Chapel, Bi- War as Heutenant m the destroy-shop's House. Hong Kong. at 6 ers Loyal and Tempest and the flotilla leader Shakespeare, In 1928-27 he was Flag Lieutenant- Commander to Vice-Admiral Str Michael Hodges, and in 1929-31 Commander at the RN College, Dartmouth.
band to Brazzaville, on his ap pointment 15 Governor, Mime. Renard took her jewellery with her. The principal items were two valued at pearl necklaces, one 3,300,000, and the other at 2,000, coor or a little more.
SLOOPS FOR FOREIGN STATIONS
It is now announced that the new sloops Deptford and London- derry, to be completed this year. both be sent to foreign will
It is not known whether Mine. Renard carried her jewels, or any part of them, on the tour of in- « spection on which her husband was engaged when the accident occured. It has been considered advisable to inform the underwrit ers on the polley of the circum- stances in case the jewels have stations That complet been lost or damaged/ing at Chathaiz Dockyard, wat go A member of the firir of Mme to the Persian Gulf to relieve the Renard's legal representatives said
Lupin, Commander T. H. Back that it would not be until Sunday which 1 return to England and that the party of officials would join the Reserve about November, reach the spot where the plane The Londonderry, completing at crashed. Until then it could not Devonport Dockyard, will leave be established whether, in fact about November to relieve the the gems were missing.
Hastings, Captain the Hon. C, F Hermon-Hodge. D.S.C., in the Red Bea
It was possible, he added, that she would not have been wearing her pearls, as she had a presenti- ment that she might be killed in an aeroplane.
CRUISER FOR CHINA
HMS. Dorsetshire, Captain W. M. Orta, general manager of the T. Makelg-Jones, late Ragship on Belgian Airways at Leopoldville, in the Africa Station, is to recoinmis- a telephone massage to Paris to- sion at Dévonport on April 2 for "Yesterday. when service in China. She will replace day,, stated: we Hew for the second time over the Cumberland, which has return- the tragic débris, we clearly sawed for large repairs at Chatham three natives, who had arrived the which will be in progress until the same morning, working at clearing summer of 1938. The Dorsetshire- the ground. No bodies could be will leave for China about May 1. seen
COMMANDER OF THE EXETER
Commander C. J. L. Bittleston,
from the plane. From the photographs that were taken yes- terday we can distinguish what
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Moon-III Moon, 22nd. Day.
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Entertainments. Violin and Plano Recital by Prue Lewis and Harry Ore, Peninsula Hotel, 9.15 p.m.
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The difficulty of recor"Ting jewellery lost in an air cras. was shown in the case of the Meopham dikkster in July, 1880. Jewellery believed to have been carried by two of the six victims, Mrs. Lo and Viscountess Ednam,
Athletic-Ching destroyers Parthian and
Hua College estimated to have been worth be
(Caroline Hill Ground), 1 p.m. Termagant and sub-lieutenant of tween 240,000 to £60,000,
Racing-Entries close for Fifth Apart from a few pearls found the, Manila. He last served afloat
IT command of the destroyer Extra Race Meeting, noon, close to where the bodies fell, there
Achates in the Mediterranean-in Sunrise 5.56 am. Bunset.-6.47 is no trace of any of the other
p.m. missing jewellery, having
been 1931-32, found.
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The greatest mystery concerned the disappearance of the hat which Mrs. Loeffler was wearing. In the lining. it was understood, a pearl necklace with diamond clasp had been placed for safety.
It was thought that the hat, a light article, might have been caught by the gale and blown into a tree perhaps miles away,
SCREEN STARS AS. EXEMPLARS
"Private Lives Do Matter, Says George Arliss
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Apr. 3 George Arliss talking: "Cinema, patrons of to-day know so much about pictures as well as of the people who play in them that I don't think they are carried away sumclently by the story to let it affect their rent Liverp
"I think it does more harm for them to know that the domestic
NAVAL HISTORY AWARDS The following officers have been awarded prizes on the result of the annual examination in naval his- tory for the year 1934-Lieutenant H C. Fox, HMS., Danae, £50, ruedal, and certificate of ment Lieutenant MW. Tomkinson, M.S. Sturdy, £15 and certificate
Tides High at 3.33 and 13.02; Low at 5.22 and 21,34
THE PRINCE'S JAČKÉT
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, April 3.
I saw the Prince of Wales
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