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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14,

DELAYS DETAILED. Witness Xes

"CIRCUMSTANCES,

OF

KOWLOON ACCIDENT,"

BEGELE MACKAY'S DEATH. Further details with regard to time elapsing before the services of an ambulance and doctor could be secured, the inability of the G C H. to take the patient. also ́actual circumstances of accident, were related at the ad- journed enquiry yesterday into the circumstances attending the

Do you disagree with what they бау. They say you came in con- tact with the bus. Do you dis- agree with that? I did come in contact, with the bus,come

Answering a further question 43 to whether he agreed with the driver when he said that the two vehicles were 80 yards away when he came in contact with the bus. Mr. Barrett said that the bus was about 100 yards away at the time..

IN NORTH

CHANG TSO-LIN ON THE „MOVELA

THREAT TO PEKING.

THE CHINA MAIL.

| (Reuber'a Service.). 3

Peking, Nov. 13. A report from Mukden states The Coroner: To what then do that transportation of troops and munitions to Tientsin is proceed- you attribute the accident? It is beyond me, how the accident haping busily. Chang Hsueh-liang death of Bessie Mackay who died pened. I thought I was clear of and other leading Mukdenites ar

the bus before it went to the left rived at Tientsin last night. at the Victoria Hospital as a re- of the road. I did not swerve at sult of injuries received as a re-all. I just went straight on salt of bus overturning in

Continuing, witness, said that Kowloon,

had no idea the impact was so he knew he had hit the bus but serious. He thought it was mere

As regarded the ambulance. evidence as to its movements from the time the call from Kowloon was received to the time that it arrived at Jordon House where

the injured girl had been taken. It had been conveying a patient to the Government Civil Hospital from Mount Austin Barracks and

ly a scrape.

"

The Coroner: Have you any impression of the speed you were going? was following the bus The bus for about 100 yards. was going along the centre of the

the bus was travelling at the ordinary speed and on pussing he

seunded his horn.

You were not affected by the accident?-No.

JAPANESE NAVAL. MOVEMENTS.

Tokyo, Nov. 18.

ROYAL TRAI

THE OSADE." OF "BAD” HOMBURG.

Hamburg, Sept. If

I learn that the controlling In- terest in the company that owns. the springs, the Kursaal, and car- tain hotels in Bad Homburg has been acquired by the city of Frankfort, writes an "Observer" correspondent. In future the famous spa will be used by Frankfort's invalids, and those who are in, the city's employ, or

The destroyers Sumire" and have a sickness insurance policy for Tsingtao to reinforce the des-out by the Frankfort authorities. Hishi" left Sasebo this morning of which the provisions are carried troyer flotilla which has been

For some years past the associa». ordered to protect Japanese lifetion between Homburg and Frank- and property in the Shantung dig trict.

The destroyers. "Warab" fort has been strengthened by a and "Ashi" have been ordered to service of trama, which travel wait in readiness to proceed to from town to town in about three- Tsingtao at any time.

quarters of an hour and are more

trains. popular than the slow-moving

vice-Secretary of the Navy

Viscount Inouye, parliamentary

leaving for China' this evening to watch developments.

» EAST YORKS ARRIVE, '

Tientsin; Nov, 13.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

MAYOR OF BOFIA,..

KILLED.

(Reuter's Servicc.)

Sofia, November 13.

of the x-Bulgarian Minister M. Madjaroff, Mayor of Sottu and London was naissinated this morning by u x-Municipal em

insistant Committed suicide ployee, whom sh had dismissed.

on the spot.

ROYAL HOOCH "}

THE GEILLIES' BALL AT BALMORAL.

The dance given by the King servants, and Queen to the tenants, and ghillies on the Bal moral Abergeldie and Birkhall estatea, known as the ghillies" ball," took place in the ballroom at Bal mural Castle.

road and then I suppose it drew; was despatched to Kowloon im-into the side of the road to allow mediately it arrived. 2

the on-coming bus to pass. Answering a question put

The Coroner: Were you trying

The season of Homburg's great by Mr. Hamilton, Coroner,

prosperity belongs to the years Mr. P. J. Conden, assistant. ing to get past him till I saw him to get past him? was not try-

when King Edward VII was Central Fire Station, said that the

Prince of Wales and was still on

Preceded by the King's piper second ambulance was disabled draw to the side of the road.

A Battalion of the East Yorks friendly terms with the ex-Kaiser. owing to the lack of a crew. The Continuing. witness said that dejver was ill and one of the

arrived this morning to relieve the Homburg was a favourite resort (Pipe-Major Forsyth), the King attendants was away on leave.

Loyal North Lancashires who are of the Prince and his friends, and and Queen entered the bufttroom, leaving for India shortly It la 30 large was the company of accompanied by the Duke and Each vehicle is provided with one driver and two attendants, who

understood that there is a possibi royalties gathered there that the Duchess of York, the Prince and lity of the latter's departure being ordinary station would not suffice Princess Arthur of Connaught, are on duty all day and night. There would be no rest for them Was your side car damaged?-postponed for a few weeks owing and a special one was built for the and the Princess Victoria, Princess

Three spokes were broken."

to the situation in North China. elect, a station with a special sid-Helena Victoria, Captain the Lord'] should applications for the van be numerous. Every ten days, they that an accident had occurred wit Immediately after discovering

ing, and doors opening on to a and Lady Maud Carnegie, Lord WU PEI-FU A REBEL

garden, through which the royal and Lady Glentanar. the Arch are granted one day's leave, when

Peking, Nov. 13. ness said that he returned and put

parties drove on their way to the bishop of York, and Sir J. Douglas another man takes their place.

the girl in his side car, but she Cabinet meetings yesterday and in the Kursaal reception rooms, at Balmoral

The Government, after lengthy royal Schloss or a favoured hote Ramsay, the King's Commissioner 'Divisional Inspector Aris gave

was later tunsferred to a motorto-day. have decided to issue which are extraordinarily ornate, evidence of having been Com-

No modern dances were included municated with from Jordon car belonging to Mr. Manners, mandate this evening denouncing they still show the menu cardy in the programme, which consisted House after attempts had re. The incident was then reported Wa Pet-fu as a rebel and saying from dinner parties given by the of Highland reels, strathspeys, peatedly and unsuccessfully been and i was not till he had reached that he went. to Rankow in Prince of Wales or the old Duke the Circassian circle. Spanish made to get into touch with doc-the Shamshuipo station, and the secret manner with a view to mak-of Cambridge, and the head waiter gavottes, the reel of Tulloch, eight- tors. He finally got into touch Sergeant examined the cycle withing an uprising and he wishes to of Bitter's still points to the corner somes, and waitzes.

a toch lamp that the damaged create disturbances throughout reserved of old time, for the Prince with Dr. B. C. Wong. Af the

The opening dance was a reel) the interior of China. Kowloon Dispensary he was told wheel was discovered.

and his friends. To-day the in which the Queen's partner was that Dr. Smalley was away in

The mandate orders Feng Yu- dent had occurred witness re-hsiang and Yueh Wei-chun to garden a forlorn remnant of what dance did the Queen miss during special station is closed, the Pipe-Major Forsyth. Scarcely a Hongkong at the time. The message regarding the beds at the must have made an error check this trouble and suppress it with

of judgment. G.CH., being full came from Dr.

The enquiry was adjourned till Craig.

BUS DRIVER'S EVIDENZE, The rest of the enquiry was de.... voted to the hearing of evidence' as

Asked how he thought the acci-

Thursday next.

ན།

the cause of the disturbance. The

mandate goes on to say that Sun development as a social centre, So great way Homburg's Chuan-fang referred in a circular and so profitable, that the springs telegram to the stationing of and the cure were rather neglect troops in Woosung and Shanghai ed. Since the war the town has

to the actual circumstances of the TO-NIGHT'S CONCERT. as the cause of the trouble but e

accident.

The driver of the bus stated that in trying to pass his vehicle

WILLIAM HEUGHAN'S

FAREWELL.

34

her stay, and several old waltz Her Majesty's special selection. tunes played by the orchestra were! These included "Missouri," "Night of Gladness," and "The Merry Widow."

It was early midnight before."

the

is now advancing in other localibeen forced to fall back upon its ties and violating the Chief healing waters, and has been build-royal party left, having been pre- Executive's peace principles. Heing up another reputation, but the sent in the ballroom about two and is ordered to instruct his forces totion is keen, and the new company,

pace is necessarily slow, competi- a half hours. which had shown great energy Homburg: very considerably, has and enterprise and had brightened assured its position by allowing the wealthy city of Frankfort to assume control." In all probability. Homburg will come to the front once again, though not perhaps in the same fashion as before.

Chang Teo-lin and Li. Ching-lin are made responsible for the defence of the Tsinpu railway Troops in the metropolitan area are instructed to return to their original positions before the trou. ble started..

motor cycle and side car struck his right wheel causing the bus to

Mr. William Heughan, the cease military operations pending werve to the side of the road. world-renowned singer and actor::ra settlement by the Government.. There would have been no danger will bid farewell to Hongkong whatsoever if the cycle had hot audiences to-night at the Theatre hit his wheel. At the moment of Royal. He leaves for Shanghai the impact there was another bua on Tuesday en route to America, over 80 yards away, travelling in sp that this will be positively the the opposite direction. There last opportunity music lovers will was sufficient clearance for the have of hearing this great artiste cycle between witness' bus and and his brilliant associates." He

PEKING THREATENED. the other vehicle.

is without a doubt the greatest interpreter, of the folk ongs of

Peking, Nov. 13. Britain we have heard and added

Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have | XXXXXXX to that he is an operatic artist of evacuated the Nanyuan barracks the first runs. He gives an amaz- and also evacuated certain Ling variety of songs and is equally racks within Peking. good in them all. With associates of his forces have entrained for like Hyman Lenzer, the wonder-Nankao. The Mukden troops are ful young Australian violinist, reported to be aproaching Peking and Gladys Sayer, the well-known from three directions. English pianiste, music lovers! are assured of a treat which will ever live in their memory,

The other driver corroborated inst. witness' evidence as regards the distance between the two buses at the time of the accident.

MOTOR CYCLIST'S ACCOUNT.

Mr. H. Barrett. principal warder of the Laichikok prisons, who was the driver of the motor cycle in question said that he had only driven a cycle prior to com- ing to the Colony for about five minutes. Before, the accident he had ridden his combiriation for a fortnight.

The Corbners You have heard the evidence of the two drivers?

The concert will commence at" 9.15 p.m. punctually, and patrons are requested to be in their segis by that time.

FAREWELL CONCERT TO-NIGHT..

Heughan, the famous Scottish

mianiute" "who," with,

zivá their farewell Hongkon

bar- Numbers

WIPED OUT.

ITALY'S WAR DEBT LUCK.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, November 13. According to a message to Rome From Washington, Italy will not be required to pay the $2,407,000,000, mentioned earlier.

but a total of $435,000,000.

RCXOR

ADVERTISEM

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS

Special Offers of Xmas Toys, Orackers, Folls. Games. Cards

Hence the settlement virtually; ********XXXXXXXXXXXXXX00

wipes out Italy's war debt to

America, leaving only the debt

incurred since the

armistice,

together with accrued interest.

SPANISH TROUBLE.

(Reuters. Service.)

London November 13. The Spanish Embassy in London huss ismad a statement that it has received telegram from the 1 Spanish Goverment uffirming that certain generals and officers of the Spanish, urmy, reserve who had: lready inclirred disciplinary peral ties and whoso prosiga in the urmy wary mall had endeavoured unsuccessfully to provoke a rising among the troops who denounced the conspînicy to the authorities— Reuter

Paria, November 182

Le Journal publishes a dis atcil from Madrid stating that two generis and four colonels, four 'majora"", "and" several subalterni together with fourteen run-· cocomissioned officers have been

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