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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 1938.
Doctor's Broken Heart: Dies ALHAMBRA
Few Weeks After Young Bride
"HE HAS SUFFERED SINCE NORAH'S DEATH," SAID FRIEND
Dr. Alastair MacDonald, who found his bride of six months dead in bed just before Christmas, died while driving his car at Foston, between Newark and Grantham.
Mr. W. E. Thompson, a dentist, of Beech Avenue, Northampton, who was a passenger in the car, told a reporter: "Dr. MacDonald died from a broken heart. None but a few can realise how he has suffered since Norah's death."
Dr. MacDonald, formerly of was because he was fate in getting to Broomhil, Glasgow, was 31 years of the Inquest. age. Both his parents are dead. 11e was eluented at Hilthead High Schoolj and Glasgow University, and hud been in Northampton about four
years.
I went
"Since her death I have been dis- tú tracted, and by mistake Northington Town Hall instead of the hospital.
"When I got to the hospital the in- Dr. MacDonald was driving bis brother-in-law, Mr. Harry Gandy, quest was nearly over. The Coroner an R.A.F. officer, back to Waddington die not ask for any information from Aerodrome along the Great Northine. I was still in too much of
daze. Read
Miss Stella Best, who will participate in the Dancing Display at the season's bal❤ lot on March 10. The bal- tot is being arranged by Mr. Geo, Goncharoff.
STOP PRESS
NAZIS EXPECT NO REVOLT With them in the car were Mr. "We were so wonderfully happy. Frank Gandy, another brother-in-When North was a young girl she
Berlin, Feb. 11. Jaw, and Mr. Thompson,
suffered from heart trouble, but she
Nazi eireles do not expect anything When in the nature of a revolt or unrest, seemed to recover froin it.
SUDDEN DEATH
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we were married she seemed in per-although it is admitted there is some restiveness among old army officers,
such districts In at specially was burled Mrs. MacDonald
and East Prussin, where Pomerania funeral service Overtone, and the was held in the village church, where they have been brought up in the a few months before she had stood old tradition. In bride.
As the car approached Foston. Dr.ffect health." AlacDonald complained that it was not working properly. 11e brought it to a standstill, and all got out.
After a short examination, Dr. Mac- Donald gel Lack in the ear ahead of his companions.
When the others entered they
found Dr. MacDonald had collapsed
and died.
His bely was removed to a club- room in the Black Horse Inn.
Death is believed to be due to heart future. Mr. Thompson said:-"When the car stopped Dr. MacDonald thought there was an air-lock in the petrol pipe.
"He suggested one of us should blow down the petrul tank while no worked the electric starter from the driving scot.
"While we three were outside the ear he tried to start the engine. but without success.
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next realised that he was not
well. He leaned back in his seat, and his head fell forward. He passed nway in two seconds.
"None but a few of us realise how he has suffered since Norah's death. I was present at his wedding. s wife was a grand girl and a wonder- ful spurt. 1 am sure he died from a broken heart."
In
WIFE'S DEATH
The hymu. "O perfect love,” which
was sung at her wedding, was sung the funeral at the special request! of the bereaved husband.
Governor Quarrels With Press
Admittance Refused
"Times Of Ceylon"
But Nuls deny there is trouble. It is gathered, however, that 11 certain weeding out of officers will
occur
in the course of time. These arc
officers unsympathetic to the new regime,
It is pointed out that the army was bullt up very hurriedly and that many offlers were brought back who were steeped in the traditions of the old regime.-Reuter,
JAPAN TO HELP
WAR WOUNDED
'Tokyo, Feb. 11. Extensive plans for the roller of officers and men wounded in Chine Towar have been completed by the
Ministry of Public Welfare with the appropriation of Y0,000,000 for establishing In Tokyo, Osaka Nagoya, soldiers souls to teach incapacitated
useful trades.
and
The less seriously wounded officers
and men will be given financial assist- nnce in entering engineering and agricultural schools.-Reuter,
REPORTS ACCIDENT IN CENTRAL AREA
"MF O. E. "C. Märton, solicitor of
Colomba, Feb, 10. Representatives of the Times of Ceylon, have been excluded from the meetings of the State Couneli due, it is believed, to strong criticism made by the paper against the President of the Council. Sir Andrew Caldecott, The inquest on Mrs. Norah Mac-ormerly Governor of Hongkong. Donald, the doctor'a 21-years-old The Council adopted a resolution December 21 by which admittance of Times re- wife, was opened on and adjourned-until-the-next-day-porters will be withheld-and-reports the interval a post-mortem of Council meetings and advertise- examination has been made by Drments will not be given for publica-Messrs. Deacons, reported this morn- Eric Shaw, chief pathologist at tion by the journal until an un-ing that while driving a car he in-
advertently broke off Northampton Hospital, and Dr. H. G. qualified apology is received. Percival, the police surgeon.
tramway Island opposite the Bank. of Mrs. MacDonald was the daughter | Yesterday, when reporters from East Asia in Des Voeux Road Cen- of Mr. and Mrs. F. Gandy, of Over the paper appeared at the Council tral. He was driving from west to stone Park, Northampton. Mr. Gandy meeting, they were restrained by cast along the road about 1.30 am. who stated when he was dazzled by the lights of is a member of Northampton Town two police inspectors, Council, and conducts a bakery busi that they were acting on behalf of an approaching car and skidded into the island sustaining some damage to The Times aled an action against the front of his. vehicle but no per- the inspectors for Illegal restraint sonal Injuries. and the President for olding abetting-Reuter Bulletin,
ness.
Mrs. MacDonald was found dead in bed by her husband on Sunday mor- ning, December 10.
At the opening of the inquest only one witness, Mrs. MacDonald's father, was called. He said that she was in good health except for a chill when he last saw her on the previous Tues- day.
In
adjourning the Inquest, the Coroner. Mr. A. J. Darnell, said to the father:-"We are deeply grieved for you and everybody concerned,
the President.
and
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*Trailo, Australia. With the present world armaments race on, the demand for wolfram, a metal extensively used in munitions manufacturing, miners here have
"WE WERE SO HAPPY" found it more profitable to abandon Mr. their gold mines and turn to wolfram At his home infer that day MacDonald sald that the reason Mr.mining. Large deposits of the lat- Gandy gave evidence of identification ter metal exist in this district,
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NEWS SNAPSHOTS Christmas Greetings Sent By Telepathy "CONTRIBUTION TO SOMETHING"
New Year and Christmas greetings were sent this year by telepathy by Horace Stovin, supervisor of stallon relations for the Canudilon Broad- casting Corporation from Ottawa.)
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entertainment of guests, the burning of loss papers and paper houses, the keeping of the dead for days, the beating of drums, and the display of
in
funcrni
lanterns and banners processlony,
There is also a trend toward chen-. per marriages, and mass weddings are finding favour among modern Chinese.
WATER SHORTAGE NEAR
NIAGARA
Firemen fighting an outbreak with- (says Reuter in sight of the Niagara Falls were Insufficient water handicapped by
Zoys Reuter, In c073-
An advertisement in the news pressure, papers explained to his friends why sequence, the Loretto Convent, which they did not receive cards through overlocks the Falls, was badly dam- the post. The advertisement rende: aged, but most of the art treasures was sent by for which the convent is famed were "My Christmas card mental telepathy. If the experiment saved. About 120 nuns and 150 was successful, another contribution children left in safety, but many aged has been made to something. If you and alling nuns had to be assisted. didn't receive it, here's wishing you NO LONGER PATROLLEDI
The ministers and congregation of the best in 1938.
Laurinburg (North But Mr. Slovin used the post after a church near all. He bought many copies of news-Carolina) asked the police to patrol advertisement, a dangerous corner while services Bapers marked the
were in progress, on the ground that and sent the papers to friends.
there was too much noise. The police CUTTING FUNERAL EXPENSES
obliged. Cheaper funerals for Chinese are planned by the Straits Chinese (saya Heuier from Singapore.) Unnecess speeding was a preacher, the second nry funeral expenses, it la declared, was the County Judge, and the third ore running many people into debt.n deacon,
Reuter adds a "P.S."-The curve Among the elaborate riled which
The Arst motorist stopped for
i hoped to abolish are the lavishla no longer being patrolled.
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