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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,⠀ ⠀'MARCH・,8,···1938.
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TWENTY-SEVEN men were last month given up for lost in two trawler disasters-15 in the Grimsby trawler Leicestershire off the Orkneys and 12 in the Fleet- wood boat Bostonian in the Atlantic.
Tattoo marks on the arm of a man whose body was washed ashore at Hoy, Orkney, yesterday confirmed fears that the Leicestershire had foundered.
The man was identified yesterday as Harold Burkitt, a trim- mor in the vessel, by his mother, who said that her son Had tattooed on one arm a swallow holding a letter in its beak and on the other a heart with the initial "M."--for Muricl, a girl with whom Burkitt had been keeping company.
Four other bodies were washed up Steward A. Blyth changed from at Hoy, one of them being the 22- the trawler Northern Chief, which year-old wireless operator, R. O. Evans formerly commanded, to re-
who was main with his favourite skipper. Mortland, of Fleetwood,
married six months ago.
YOUNG WIFE'S VIGIL
His 20-year-old wife had, during the voyage, been receiving messages from her husband by radio.
The only other cluo to the Leicestershire's fate is a panel of a wireless sch also washed 'up oaj - Hoy, which bears the number of
the set fitted in the ship.
The Leicestershire set out for the fishing grounds on January 7, and the list heurd of her was early on Friday morning, when she was in touch with Wick radio station and reported her position os 30 miles north-west of Sule Skerry, an Island in the Orkney group.
Her master, Skipper A. Evans, was making bls Arst trip in the vessel.
Count Taaffe, who is rumoured
"I am sailing with him for life," a successor to Eamon de Valera as he told his wife as he said "Good-president of Elre, photographed with his wife at the home of the Coun- byc."
tess's father in Dublin.
HOPE FOR 12 GIVEN UP Wives, sweethearts and relatives of the 12 members of the crew of the Fleetwood trawler Bostonian were fold that the owners of the boat had
given up hope of her return.
A few, however, still hoped against hope, and gathered again forlorn- ly on the quayside to watch the twinkling lights at sen, But they saw no sign of the missing vessel.
The Bostonian deft Fleetwood for fishing rounds in the North the Atlantic 800 miles away nearly three months ago,
SHIPS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Parliament's Tribute To Seaman
Death Of A. B. Long Raises Questions
In Commons
London, Mar. 7.
Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Parlia The following ships are expected mentary and Financial Secretary to TWO HUSBANDS LOST
to be in wireless communication with the Amiralty, voiced the regret of the Twenty-nine-year-old Mrs. Evans, Hongkong rudlo: Bontekoe, Hailee, House of Commons at the death of who has three children under 11, is Mirzapore, Haruna
Maru,
Aister, A. B. George Long, which occurred widowed for the second time, her Tainon, Pingwo, Talyuan,
Cante when H.M.S. Kempenfeld and H.M.S. first husband having been drowned Verde, Scharnhorst, Empress Of
Boreas were picking from a Russia Norviken, Lleuwholland, Em- ferring Balcares survivors to the
and up trans- trawler to try to save a comrade. press Of Japan, Ensis, Comorin, Pre-Canarias yesterday. He said that A.
sident Jackson, Hector, and Talma.
when he dived overboard
Another member of the crew, J. Conelly, died four years and a day after bis younger brother met his death in o sinking trawler. Itis; mother haS now given two sons
and a husband to the sea. Her third and only surviving son is inj the Navy.
Naval Talks Continuing Informally
STOP PRESS
ATTLEE ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OF BETRAYAL
London, Mar. 8. Concurrently with informal dls- cussions between British, French and American naval experts in Lon-
London, Mar, 7. don on the question of Japanese naval building, it is understood that the Opposition, in the course of the
Major Clement Attlee, leader Informal talks have also taken plate House of Commons debate on the de- In Tokyo, says Reuter's "diplomatic fence estimates declared: "We have correspondent.
offended
of
The result of the London talks embarked on a system of alliances naturally will be affected by the out-and the Premier has
the come of any enquiries in Tokyo, but spirit of a vast number of people. neither set of conversations has yet They are willing to stand for reached a sumciently concrete stage League, but they are not willing to for any announcement.—Reuter. dragged into another war of 11-
MCNUTT LEAVES
FOR FAR EAST.
ON MARCH 23
New York, Mar. 8.
be
|liances.
the
was
D. Long had been deemed killed in
action
Mr. D. Sandys' (Cons) asked if it was necessary that British lives shotild be risked in the work of trans- shipping rescued seamen back to a belligerent warship.
Mr. Shakespeare said that in carry- ing out the rescue, the British Navy acted in accordance with the finest tradition.
Col. J. C. Wedgwood (Lab.) asked why such rescued scamen were not interred, and Mr. Shakespeare said the Government did not take the view that they were bound by the obligations of neutrality-Reuter,
JAPAN PROTEST AGAINST NON- CHINESE FLIERS
Resents "Assistance
Given To China
Pelping, Mar, 7. The Japanese
sponsored Peiping Chronicle in reproducing Shanghai reports that Vincent Schmidt is it is understood the Japanese Govern- heading foreign volunteers adds that ment
will lodge a
a protest, reserving claims for
Sir Thomas Inskip, winding up the debate, emphasised that there scarcely a point in the Imperial de-
for damage by foreign pilots. fence policy that was not from week! to week the subject of a very search-
In an editorial attacking foreign nations for permitting their nationals ing review. He said that the vast to serve in the Chinese air force, the majority of Britain's air squadrons puper says that i it were fully equipped. "By March Americans, British and
illegal for French, while Mr. Paul McNutt, Philippines 1930, we shall have 1,750 up-to-date the Soviet violate international Jaw, Commissioner, arrived in New York drst-line planca of the highest possible to commit an act of war, involving to-day and will probably return to-power and capacity. The balloon
on their country, In Hankow, morrow for a conference at the White House.
.
the
barrage for London is organised in American Embassy must be em- ten squadrons. Three out of four barrassed by the sight of American A San Fransisco message says that depots for storage and administration citizens employed in active aerial Mr. Paul McNutt has now booked to will be completed very shortly, and warfare against a friendly return to the Philippines by the four-fifths of the balloons and all It says that the German advisers in Hawali Clipper on March 23, instead the winches have been delivered"] China are in of March 9.-United Press.
said Sir Thomas.—Reuter.
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Sirius Also Scores In Yacht Club Events
Kittiwake and Sirius took leading places in the second series of the seventh women's race held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yester- day over a course of 0,0 miles. "A" class storted at 14.45 and mixed classes pt 14.50.
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Assassination
Causes Great
Sensation
Hankow, Mar. 7.
It is presumed that the murderers- were members of Chinese patriotic bodies in Shanghal, who were deter- mined to get rid of him as a traitor.
Chow was aged, 68.-
A French official police report states that the murderers escaped into
tho Chiriese quarter. The French employed Chinese police were 200 yards away at the time of
The assassination of Gen. Chow the shooting, but these, after giving
in Shanghai yesterday pursuit, failed to trace the murderers.
The report ndđa that a writ was
Feng-chi
D
caused
a
great sensation
R. N
Mixy4. ClamED
** 10.19.45
10.18.10.10
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hos here. It had long been under-fasted against Chow as far back as Blood that Chow was negotiating 1932 by the Central Government for
the fundamental with the Japanese with a view to activities against
of the Laking a post in the proposed Japan-security
Router, esa new governments.
Chinese
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