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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1927.
SEVERE 'QUAKE,
Loss of Life in South America.
HAVOC IN THE NIGHT.
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STORM'S FURY.
MANY VESSELS LOST OFF SPAIN.
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Fighting Admiral For Yangtse.
WARSHIP'S GALLANT RESCUE
AMERICAN RESCUE EXPLOIT.
Buenos Aires, April 14
Madrid, April 14.
Löndon, April 15 There have been violent ales The Admiralty announces the There was an earthquake at 2.80 in the morning in Chile and on the coasts of North Africa and appointments of Rear Admirals Argentina.
Spain. Many vessels, including Bertram Thesiger and Hugh A number of houses were de-hundreds of fishing craft, hate Tweedie to be Commander-in- molished at the town of Mendoza, been wrecked, and numerous lives Chief of the East Indies. Station where two people were killed and have been lost. Business is at aand Senior Naval Officer of the standstill at Melilla and a cyclone Yangtze, respectively, in succes- Afty injured
The shock was felt in Buenos at Malaga destroyed many houses,sion to Vice Admiral Ellerton and A British destroyer from Rear Admiral-Cameron-Reuter. Aires and other towns, but there were no casualties. - Reuter's Gibraltar, in response to an S.0.8... American Service.
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Buildings Collapse.
Santiago, Chile, April 14,
rescued, in the midst of the temp-! Rear-Admiral Bertram Thesiger est, the crew of thirty of the has been Admiralty Superinten-
which steamer "Collingiale,"
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Several buildings partially colwent aground of Mella-Resince 1925. Born in 1875, the lapsed owing to an earthquake inter. the early morning. It is believed that six persons were killed and (many were injured.
Telegraphs, with other cities have been interrupted-Reuter's American Service.
Numerous Casualties.
Mendoza, April 15.. At least 16 people were killed and 60 were injured in the earth- quake mentioned on April 14 which lasted for twenty seconds..
Reports from the interior. of the province of Mendoza indicate that the casualties are likely to be a hundred.
Fourteen houses in Mendoza. collapsed and a Church at San Nicholas was wrecked-Reuter's American Service:
LOSS TO ART.
FAMOUS, BRITISH PAINTER DEAD.
SOME NOTABLE PICTURES..
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London, April 25, The death is announced of the artist, Henry Holky.-Reuter.
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Ships. Break Away.
Paris, Apri) 14. There has been great damage at Oran. Many ships broke their moorings. Trees were torn up and roofs were blown off. The crops have been ruined-Reuter.
NAVAL PARLEY.
First Meeting To Be Held In June.
Washington. April 15,
As a result of exchanges with the Governments of Britain und Japan the date of the meeting of the three-power naval limitation conference has been provisional- ly fixed for June 12-Reuter's American Service.
RECORD FLYING.
OVER FIFTY HOURS IN THE AIR.
COMING ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
second son of the, Hon, Sir Edward Thesiger. K.CE, he entered the Royal Navy in 1887, becoming a lieutenant in 1895, commander in 1905, captain in 1912, and rear- admiral in 1922. Rear-Admiral Thesiger served in the war and the Battle of Jutland was at Bank, being mentioned in des patches and recieving the Bl He was appointed an A.D.C., to: the King in 1922.
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Served in China. Rear-Admiral Tweedie Was born in 1877, the son of General Michael Tweedie, R.A., who serv-| ed in the Crimea and the Mutiny. Educated on the "Britannia," Read-Admiral Tweedie served in the Mediterranean, at the Cape, in China, in the West Indies and in North America. He was in Mexico under Admiral Cradock, and was present at Tampico and Vera Cruz during the American Bookbinders. landing. He carried despatches to the British and Foreign Em- bassies in Mexico city, railway and telegraphic communications being severed, and returned with over 100 American refugees, women and children, from Solidad and district.
"The son of an English teacher of
With the Grand Fleet." classits und mathematics and a
At the outbreak of the wor French mother, Henry Hallday wasp
Rear-Admiral Tweedie served in List of ships expected to be in wireless communication with Hong early impressed with the imagina- tion and beauty of pre-Raphelite
New York, April 15. the West Indies and afterwards Kong to-day :--
Two civilians, Bert Acusta and in command of the Marshal Ney President McKinley. President Tuft. Laisang. Khiva. Cremer. Tii-pictures, He was kindly received
Hulman Clarence Chamberlain, broke the Monitor on the Belgian Coast, tarnem huichow. Tilsondari, Changle. Kutsang. Devanha, Suiyang, by Millais, Rosetti and
Hunt and formed 12 life-long world's flying endurance record in Later he became Senior Naval Taiwan. Ningehow, Saarlanik, Hakone Maru, Muroran Mara..
friendship with Holman Hunt and a Belanca monoplans..
Officer at Ismalia, Suez Canal, the Barne Jones. While at the Royal They took off at 9.30 on Tuesday Dardanelles Patrol, the Struma Academy he formed A
sketching and aimed to remain in the air lifty River operations against the Bul club with Albert Moore, Mareus hours. Stone and Simeon Solomon..
Henry Holiday's first picture asjand 12 minutes.
EASTER HOLIDAYS.
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Henry Holiday invented a new form of enamel on metal in relief, to extend the use of the material to large scale work. He was the au- thor of a series of articles on wood, engraving in the "Magazine of Art" and "Reminiscences of My Life.")
BURMA MURDER.
FRENCH CATHOLIC FATHER' KILLED.
Rangoon, April 15.
A. French Catholic Missionary
He also edited "Aglala," the journal Futher named Chagnof who has of the Healthy and Artistic Dreas worked for twenty years in the Union. His recreations were chief- Maubin district has been murdered ly mountain climbing (English) and in his bedroom. The motive was music: He followed the progress of apparently robbery. The perpetra- accom- tors identity is unknown-Reiter, aclence with interest and panied Sir Norman Lockyer's eclipse expedition to India in 1871.
"GODLESS UNION."
HOW RUSSIA IS KEEPING EASTER.
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Riga, April 15. The Bezbozhniki, otherwise the "Godless Union," is celebrating Easter by launching an anti-i religious campaign which, the Moscow trades unions is seconding by instructing the various guilda and unions, actively to analat atheists.
WEATHER TO IMPROVE.
Better weather is indicated in the official forecast for the 24 hours ending, at noon to-morrow, reading-Moderate N.E. winds, overcast at first, finer later!
The forecast is the same for Hong Kong, the adjacent coast and Formosa Channel.
London, October 14 No news-
The Council of Trades. Unions papers are being published on has also instructed unions to afford Good Friday. Beuter.
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provide the workers with club premises for anti-religious per- formances.--Reuter.
POLISH MAYOR KILLED.
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As the result of injuries sus tained when knocked down by a public motor car, of Prays East, early on Thursday night, a Chin-
male of the poorer classes who has not been identified, died in the Government Civil Hospital a few hours after admission
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Easter Sunday, April 17. 7.15 a.m. Holy Communion. 8.15 am. Holy Communion.
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