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DEATH OF MR. E. E. DE ABNEY."
It is with much regret that we have to record the death of Mr. E. E. de W. Abney, former agent of Messrs. Thos. Cook, and Son "In Hongkong, news having been received by cable to-day that he passed away in London on the 22nd instant. The funeral takes place this afternoon.....
CHILD LIFE IN RUSSIA.
APPALLING CONDITIONS
DISCLOSED.
SİLENCED BY TERRORISM;
Riga, May 24
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
POLICE INSPECTOR RETIRING.
OFFICER WHO WON THE M,C.
After over fifteen years' connec tion with the Hongkong Pollco, if his three years of active Recylen in the late war are included, Sub- There are no fewer than 657,000 | Inspector C. McNab Wilson, M.C., waits and strays in Russia, many is about to go Home on retirement living under appalling conditions, from a Force in which he had on according to revelations made at more than one occasion dietin- He leaves on the Council of Peoples Commis-guished himself. sars, presided over by M. Rykoff },the P. and O. liner Malwa, which and reported in the Izvestia.
Baile on Saturday.
The Pravda reports from the district that horrible conditions are experienced by children: in some Government: homes. The children are torrarized into silence as regarde the brutal treatment and immorality practised by the managers of these establishments.
Prior to joining Messrs. Cook's, Mr. Abney was with the P. and 0.
It was stated that Government; Company, which firm he joined in 350,000, and the council decided to institutions are already housing London about the year 1898 offer inducements to other Institu- From London, he went to the Suctions and to artisana willing to office of the Company in 1905, take the homeless children as ap where he remaind for about a
prentices. year, and was then transferred to Aden for a like period. Later still, Mr. Abney was posted to the Bombay office, where he stayed until the early part of 1910, when he joined the Hongkong office. He remained with the . and O. Company here. for a little over a year, and then left to take a posi-Reuter, tion with Mesars. Thos. Cook and Son, in whose service he has since been up to the time of his death. He succeeded. Mr. John Bentley as the Hongkong agent of Messrs. Cook's and went Home on leave in 1924, but his state of health was such that he did not return to the East, remaining in the London office of the Company. Both in Bombay and in Hongkong, he was.
Mr. Potter: Your father well known as a vocalist, ang celyed many letters from brokers great interest
in all musical addressed to the Yue Hong Bank? matters.
Yes, for donvenience.
The decensed leaves a widow and Sone daughter, Both of whom are
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said that they were probably sent there to prevent them going as
tray...
NZ »A FINE RECORD.
Rarely has a record been so noteworthy than that which Sub- Inspector McNab Wilson has builti for himself in the course of his association with both the Police Force and the Army. He was given a commission as secondi lieutenant in the Army in the late! War on volunteering from the Hongkong Police Force, and went one step further in obtaining the much coveted Military Cross, being mentioned in despatches and later presented to His Majesty the King for conferment of the decoration. With the termination of hostilities, Mr. McNab Wilson returned to Hongkong to resume' his service in the local police organisation, attaining the rank of Sub-Inspector,
From the official records kept of members' of the Force, details were disclosed this ro-morning of an interesting career. These showed that Sub-Inspector McNab Wilson joined the Force locally from the R. G. A. on the 14th January, 1910, and rose by graduated stages to the position of Sub-Inspector on the 10th January, 1921, also holding the position of Musketry Inspector for a short time. This latter is no little distinction, having regard to the high standard of marksman- ship required in the Force. He is one of a half-dozen men holding the badge of crick shots in the
HOUSEHOLDER'S REGISTRY. When the Bank was at Jervois in London, for whom the greatest Street, your father was registered sympathy will be felt?
as the householder and described as a banker. Can you explain that--Perhaps he was managér.
Is that guesswork?--I heard it. My brother told me.
He was manager of his son's Hank-Yes, Yui-sa! young..
TRAFFIC CASES.
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ESCAPE.
WAR very
A Chinese was summoned before Major C. Willson, at the Central-Yui-sai was smart man- Magistracy this morning, for dan-langhter).
Yes, very young to start a bank? Force."
gerous driving. The defendant Witness had previously stated admitted the offence, saying he that he could not find his brother was in a hurry.
in the Colony.
was a previous conviction.,
A fine of $30 was imposed.
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TWICE COMMENDED.
The courage which Sub-Inspec-
or McNab Wilson could always
2 depended or to bring to the Mr. RA. D. Forrest, Secretary Mr. Potter:-In 1919, the Bank | pr"formance of his duties, and of the Sanitary Department; said moved to 24, Winglok Street? which at a later date was to re- the defendant way driving at Yes.
ceive more fitting recognition, about fteen miles an hour round And your father is still named elsewhere, was first officially re- the corner Hour the Post Office as householder and banker'?-1|corded in connection with a diffi- building. Witness would have believe the fokis made, an exact cult situation which he was been knocked down had he not been copy of the old register.
called upon to handle. two years pulled aside by a Mr. Watson. In 1924, you are given as land-after his recruitment,
A large Inspector Blackman said thereford and your rather as house- and hostile crowd had got out of
holder and banker?-Yes.
Can you tell me why in In another case, a Chinese tram 1925, you are down under your driver was charged with disobey-aling Ng Yui-cheung as landlord ing a polica direction signal in under your real name Ng Sui-sau Arsenal Street. The case was re-as householder and banker-end he succeeded in making the "innnded from lust Tuesday, when don't know who wrote it.
evidence was given by, Dr. Pater- I put it to you that the bank was son. An Indian constable was in a family concern-I had no in. hospital and the case was put over terest in it. for him to attend. He gave evi- dence this morning, and the de- fendent was fined $10.
MANILA SHIPPING,
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In answer to further questions, witness stated that he and his. brother bought 24, Winglok Strekt between them. He got his share from a legacy of his maternal grandmother. Last year he NEW OFFICE BEING OPENED.bought his brother's share for
The Columbia Pacific Shipping
$14,000. Company, one of the largest ship-
Mr. Potter: You were getting ping firms on the American Pa. $50 a month, where did you get cific coast and doing heavy cargo $14,000-I speculated in Chinese business with Japan, China and subsidiary coins at Canton and
made money." the Philipines, is opening its own fee in Maná from July 1, ac-
Witness was handed a detailed cording to an announcement inade statement of the Bank's business, yesterday by Mr. E. W. Latie, who which showed 24, winglok Street will be Manila munager for the as an asset of the Bank valued organization. The Columbia aged- at $28,900.
.:
-the
cy has been directed here for some Witness pointed out that there years by Welch-Fairchild, Ltd., was nothing on the document to and has obtained a fair share of show that it was a Yue Hong Bank the cargo offerings to China, Ja-
statement.
Mr. Potter: You say pan and American porta. The of fice, in charge of Mr. Latie, will premises belonged to you. Can be situated in Room No. 306. you explain why in July last year the deeds were deposited at the Pacific Building.
Mr. Latie, the now manager forongkong and Shanghai Bank as the Columbia Pacific Company inaccurity for an overdraft of the Yue Hong Bank?-My brother the Philippines, is well known-to
begged me to. It was the time Manila shipping, and business men
of the crisis? due to his frequent trips, to the is- lands. For several years he was associated with the Admiral Line. in Japan, first at Yokohama and then in Kobe. When the Dollar line took over the Pacific. Mail interest in the Orient, Mr. Latie was manager in Kobe for the com- bined Dollar and Admiral Ling busness. Mr. Latia also repre sented the Admiral Line organiza
He tion in Hongkong for a time. resigned from the Admiral Line a
Mr. Potter asked witness not to When putting other questions,
fence with him.
hand at Yaumati, on the 7th December, 1912, but the situation was met by Lance Sergeant Wilson' (as he was then), with the dia- play of great courage, and in the
arrest of one of the demonstrators. For this courageous performance of duty in the face of great odds, Sergeant Wilson a week later was commended by the then Governor of the Colony.
In March of the following year, he was again commended by His Excellency for the rescue of drowning woman from the harbour.
FOR GALLANTRY.
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When the Inte war called for more volunteers for active service, Sergeant McNab Wilson W29 amongst those in the Police Force who responded to the call.
He,
of course, took up an old metier again in volunteering for service in the R. G. A. and was granted a commission, doing conspicious service and being mentioned dispatches.
in
We are not given the facts of the particular exploit in which he figured, but the record of his ser- vice whilst with the Army in France showed that on the 28th September, 1918, Second Lieuten- ant McNab Wilson, of the R. G. A., was awarded the Military Cross. for "conspicuous gallantry and de- votion to duty." On the 29th of May, "in the following year, he. at- tended at Buckingham Palace and
presented to His
received his decoration. Mujesty the King, from. whom he
WOR
On demobilization, he return- The examination is proceeding. to Hongkong und sometime after- wards was promoted to the rank of Sub-Inspector.
DUTCH OIL CO.
ISSUE OF DEBENTURES.
Amsterdam, May 24.
Sub-Inspector McNab' Wilson, on retiring, goes Home to rejoin his wife and family, who had stayed behind when he last re- turned from Home leave. He The Bataafsche Petroleum Com-carries with him the most sincere few months ago to take his new pany, a subsidiary concern of the wishes of many friends in this; place with the Columbia Pacific Royal Dutch Co., is on June 1st Colony. and for some time has represent-issuing 24,000,000 gullders in 4%1⁄2
ed the firm in Kobe. He is re- per cent. debentures at 97%, of garded as one of the best freight which 8,000,000 guilders have al- end passenger.mon in the Orlent:
Mr. Latio announces that h bl- monthly freight service between Manila" and the American coast will be established..
ready been privately placed.
This issue is part of a loan of 72,000.000 guilders, of which 24,
borg Heine] 1000,000, guilders were issued In
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