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HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1932.
LATE PRESIDENT DOUMER
BURIAL IN NOTRE : DAME CATHEDRAL
Paris, May 7..
The body of the Inte President is being embalmed, after which the public will be allowed to file past In final homage to the popular white bearded "Grand Old Man."
A state funeral service will be held in Notre Dame Cathedral and he will be buried on May 12 in the Pantheon, where no Frenchman has been burled immediately after death since Prealdont Carnot, who was also assassinated, in 1804.
State theatres and all Govern- ment offices will be closed during the funeral and all flags will be flown at half-mast and decked with crepe. All civil and military of Beinls will wear mourning on duty
this month.
The lying-in-state will take place on Monday afternoon in the Salle des Fetes, in the Champs Elysco, which has been transformed into a chapelle ardente.-Reuter.
Paris Numbed by the Tragedy.
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The Steamship,
"YALOU"
Goods not cleared within 7 days including date of arrival, will be subject to rent.
thu
DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN LABOUR LEADER
Paris, May 8. M. Albert Thomas, Director of
Arrived Hongkong on Friday, the International Labour Bureau,
the 6th May, 1982. was taken ill In-a Paris Cafe at
From DUNKIRK, ANTWERP, LONDON &c. via SHANGHAI. midnight and died in the Beaujon Hospital where, twenty-four hours
Consignees of Cargo by the above previously, M. Doumer had died.named steamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception and Valuables [M. Albert Thomas was born at of Opium, Tronzare Champigny-sur-Marne 1878, are being landed and placed at their His father, a baker, made every risk in the Godowns of the Hongkong
Co. Ltd sacrifice to give him a good educa Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Kowloon, whence delivery can be tion. He won scholarships which obtained as the goods are landed. enabled him to go to Russia and also to Germany where he took a term at Berlin University, visited the more important towna and studied the trade union movement. When M. Jaures founded Humanite in 1904, he put M. Thomas, who had not yet got his degree, in charge of the labour side of the consignees,
Messra: Goddard paper. M. Thomas also edited the Bu
at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, Revue Syndicaliste and occupied
more and more with the 12th May, 1932. Consignees must himself economic and industrial matters have a Revenue Officer in attendance goods are when damaged dullable generally as a member of the staff mined by the Company's aur- of L'Information. Ho compiled the second volume of the Histoire
No claims will be admitted after Socialiste", edited by M. Jaures. the goods have left the Godowns. in 1910 he was selected to the Cham- No Fire Insurance will be effected ber where he soon made his markby us in any case whatever. and by his intervention in the rail-
R. ONL way strike became one of the lead- ing figures. Soon after the out-
Hongkong, 6th May, 1932. break of the war he was entrusted with the organising of the munition works. He travelled day and night:
Paris, May 7. Shocked and benumbed by the tragedy the Capital abandoned the den of work to-day and an' early morning stream of workers and business people is forming up in an unending queue outalde the Pre-from the War Ministry to sidential Palace, to which the body G.I.Q., from the front to the fac was transported immediately after tories. His first task was greatly death.
to increase the output of sheels for the "768". Then he had to provide more for the big guna and finally the entire munitions Bervice was made a special Ministry and put under his charge until at the recon- struction in autumn, 1917, he re- signed by agreement with his party. In 1916 und 1917 he visited Russia in connexion with munition matters. During the revolution he supported the Kerensky Govern- ment and helped to check the collapse of the Russian front and for some months acted as French hc Ambassador. After the war
the became a keen supporter of League of Nations. The esteem in which he was held by the French workers was shown in 1919 when he was offered M. Jaures' old scat which he was able to hold against the National Bloc. Scarcely a month later at the first Labour Conference at Washington, at which he was not present, he was chosen for the im- portant post of Director of the International Labour Oflee at Geneva in connexion with the Leaguc.
All the theatres are closed to-day. M. Tardieu issued a message to the French people saying, "The whole of France has been struck with stupor and plunged into con- sternation. The Nation weeps for the illustrious old man whose life was devoted to her service, and whose four sons died in her defence. She bowa before the sorrowful widow, who this morning closed the eyes of her husband, who also fell in action. Let us render to the lead of the State by our calm and dignity the only homage he would have de- sired. In memory of a great ser- vant and execution of the law. France will know how to affirm her grief and unity."--Reuter.
M. Le Brun as President.
Paris, May 7. In accordance with the Constitu- tlon, the National Assembly will meet immediately to applont a suc- cessor, but the second ballet elec- tion to-morrow will prevent its meeting before Tuesday at the carliest.
At present the indications are that M. Le Brun, President of the Senate, will be elected practically without opposition.-Reuter.
All claims must be sont to undersigned before the Monday, the 10th May, 1032, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages must be loft in the Godowns for examination by the and the Company's
veyors.
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Ho travelled widdy in connexion of special roads for motor traffic with his work, visiting Japan, and of canale in Europe, including China and the Dutch East Indies a connexion between the Rhine and in 1028-9 in an effort to reduce the Danube.] hours of work and improve condi- tions. In 1081 he made a vigorous reply
to
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Mra. C. E. Sandstrom.
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criticism of the I.L.O. and deplored morning of Mrs. C. E. Sandstrom TILAWA
an executive of With the shadow of M. Dou Britain's failure to live up to her Standard Oil Co., of Canton, at the mer's assassination over-clouding professions on the Hours Conven- Canossa Hospital, Hongkong, after France, voting for the 359 scats tion. In April he put forward a
n week's illness. A simple but im- in the second-ballot elections be-scheme for an international system pressive funeral took place on kan at 8 a.m. to-day. Although | —
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large number of
from NANKIN
the NELLORE cipated that the assassination candidate for the Left-Reuter, will greatly influence the trend Anxiety for Claude Ferrere, Hongkong and Canton met
cortege at the Monument and ac- of the elections, although the fact
the Novelist.
companied it to the cemetery, Paris, May 7. that public opinion demands the
Mrs. Sandstrom was very popular stricter surveillance of foreigners The condition of Claude Ferrere. entering France may cost the ex- the well-known novelist, who was in both Hongkong and Canton and treme left many votes, especially twice shot by Gouguloff when he her many friends and acquain- Communists, who are regarded as tried to disarm him, arouses tances will hear of her decease with and the deepest typifying violence.
anxiety. He had a restless night.great regret, One bullet was extracted, but the sympathy will go out to her hus- other is still in his shoulder.-Reuband, who was too ill at the time
to be able to attend the funeral. ter.
M. Le Brun has agreed to stand as the Presidential candidate. It is still doubtful whether the ex-
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