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NAVAL APPOINTMENT.
SUPT. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER AT.. CHATHAM.
was the
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929.
FATHER KREUTZEN RELEASED.
NO RANSOM WHATEVER PAID TO HIS CAPTORS.
Hankow, Dec, 2:
AUCTION SALE,
THREE LOTS OF CROWN LAND SOLD YESTERDAY.
Of the three lots of Crown land sold by pubite auction yesterday afternoon, only one attracted any competition, the other two being sold at their upset prices.
Mr. II. Martin, M.I.E. (E.), M.I.E. (S.A.) has been appointed En- Superintending Electrical gineer at Chatham Dackyard, in News received by the Mission succession to Mr. G. D. Loyer this morning states that Father
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2,275, M.I.E. (E.) The latter Electrical Engineer-in-Charge at Kreutzen has been released and is
safe at Taych. It is stated that no situated at the junction of Tai Malta Dockyard from 1908 to
an approximate 1919, when he became the Super ransom whatever was paid, and the Nan Street and Cedar Street, Tal- Intending Electrical Engineer at release was effected unconditionally koktsui, with Rosyth Dockyard, "where he re- by Father Connaughton from Han-area of 16,610 square feet, was Lau Sam-pak for $29,068-the up- mained for five years. He was kow, who has been negotiating with sold to Mesars. Chung Tak-yu and
similar the Communists for a fortnight then appointed in a
set price. capacity to Hongkong Dockyard, past. and in January 1927 took up the Chatham appointment. Mr. Mar tin was serving at Portsmouth Dockyard at the end of the war. and has remained there ever since. becoming the Senior (rrincipal Assistant) Electrical Engineer three years ago.
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situated The second lot, also Father Kreutzen is expected at at the junction, of Tal Nan Street Hankow to-morrow or Wednesday, and Cedar Street, with an appro- when fuller details will be available.ximate aren of 3,720 square feet, -Reuter,, "
was knocked down to Mr. Kat for $7,010 aftor Chiu-wong bids of $100 each, the upset price being $0,510.
(A Hankow message of Novem- ber 19 stated. The Franciscan Bishop of Wuchang has received a
Mr. Lay Sam-pak, who with He is to be aucceeded at Porta- letter from Father Kreutzen stat mouth by Mr. E. F. Kent, the ing that he is safe and well but Mr. Chung Tak-yu, bought the Senior Electrical Engineer at giving no clue to his whereabouts.first let, purchased Kowloon In- Chatham since December 1922. Another Father has been despatch- In 1919-20 he was serving with ed to liwangshihkang to endeavour and Lot No. 2,277 at the upset. the Scientific Research and Ex-to arrange for his release, but his price of $16.380. The lot is and K Lung Street and has an ap re-captors are firmly holding out for situated between Yu Chau Street perimental Department. Hts
of 9,360 square proximate area lief at Chatham is Mr. J. the payment of a ransom.}.
feet. Needham, who has been the Electricn) Engineer-in-Charge nt Cape of Good Hope Dockyard since November 1926, at which Second time he had been the
| Electrical OMeer at Rosyth Dock-
yard for over two years.
Mr. W. Browning, who was the junior officer on the electrical sta at Rosyth Dockyard (1924-
SOVIET AND CHINA.
DESCRIPTION OF A BOMBING RAID.
Peking, Dec. 2. Foreign sources at Harbin con-
aries state that twelve aeroplanes bombed the town from 11 a.m. to i p.m.
One bomb bit the station, smash- ing all the glass and bringing down the ceiling in the main building. Other bombs set on fire residences
26), and since has been serving arm the reported departure of Tsaf in various parts of the town, while at Chatham Dockyard. is now Yun-sheng on November 30 for motor-car in which relief workers Joining the staff of the Director of Electrical Engineering at the
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Rivers district is bad. Hundreda Harbarovsk.
of "Whites" are fleeing for their Foreign missionaries returning to lives with a few household gooda, Harbin describe the Soviet air raid and camping at night, upon the plains in bitter on Puketo on November 29. They snow-covered were present at Paketo doing relief weather. Many are suffering from work connected with the Three illness, wounds and exposure.—; Rivers district, and these mission- Reuter.
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