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AMERICA AND THE
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A..SEAPLANE DISASTER
14 DROWNED
WHAT BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE UNLUCKY . PASSENGERS DEPLO- "SHOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED"
MR. KELLOGG'S POSITION
Washington, Yesterday.
RABLE FATE
A TERRIBLE CRASH
Rio de Janeiro, Yesterday,
ARMED ROBBERY AND STREET SHOOTING
TILL FORCED
FUGITIVE FIRES AT SHOP FOKIS
NO ARREST EFFECTED
Shortly after 10 o'clock last night,
The British Embassy has an- A seaplane, carrying 14 passen- an armed robbery was carried out nounced that Mr. Baldwin sent his gers, flew out to meet the incoming i
reply to Mr. Britten direct in con- liner, on which was the pioneer by two Chinesa in a sundry goods sonance with the wishes of the fller, Santos Dumont, travelling in store at No. 155, Wuhu-street, State Departmont, which apparent a seaplane: crashed and all the pas- Hungbom.
ly did not favour the use of sengers were drowned.Reuter's diplomatic channels
New York, Yesterday. The Britten incident still holds) the front page of the American papers, which comment generally: on the unfavourabla example.
American Service.
POLICE RESERVE
C. S. P. ISSUES NEW ORDERS
THE TRAINING SCHOOL
The "Evening Post" declares that the British Foreign Office blundered in permitting Mr. Baldwin seriously to reply to Mr.!
The following orders have been Britten's "ridiculous and uncon-issued by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. stitutional proposal "or of letting Wolfe, C.M.G., Captain Superinten Sir. Eame Howard to call on Mr. dent of Police Kellogg thereanent, thereby plac-} Police Training School ing Mr. Kellogg in a necessary but Classes for Police Reservists will undignified position, in having to be held as usual on Tuesday, Doc. refuse to receive it-Reuter's 4 and 11 at 6 pma. American Service.
OPIUM RAMP
NANKING TO INVESTIGATE
SEIZURE
RIVAL INTERESTS CLASH
Shanghai, Yesterday.
1
The dispute which originated in connection with 20,000 ounces of opium shipped from Hankow, on the China Merchants 8.8. "Klang-
On the same dates at 5.30 p.m. sharp, Instruction will be given in. the handling and alming of revolver. Squad Drill, etc.
All recruits of the Chinese and Indian Companies and of the Fly-
STILL" FINE"
The local weather forecast till'noon to-morrow la:-"Fresh N. E. winds, fine?"
They held up the Inmates with revolvers, and while one man kept| guard over the three shop fokie, the other forced open the till and helped himself to money totalling $60.
The robbers then left hurriedly, without waiting to attempt to open į a big safe in the shop. They ran In a westerly direction heading for the railway bridge in Taimishatsui.
Two of the shop fokia gave chase but were stopped by one of the fugitives who fired his revolver at them. Luckily, no one was hit.
The robbers made good their escape, and although the police im mediately investigated the affair, no arrest has so far been effected.
STRANGE WILL
"QUEEN VICTORIA'S
DESCENDANTS":
COURT PROCEEDINGS
The Court of Appeal, London, recently heard an appeal which raised the question of the validity of a clause in the £45,000 will of
At 10.50 a.m. to-day the Ob- Mr. William James Villar, of servatory reported:--
The depression has deepened.
· considerably and passed to the N. E. of Japan. The anti- cyclone over China has strengthened slightly. "Fresh to strong monsoon may be expect. ed along the S.E. coast of China and over the North China Sen.
Taunton, who died in 1926.
The clause created a trust of the residuary estate to continue unt 20 years after the death of the last survivor of the lineal descendants of Queen Victoria living at the time of Mr. Villar's death,
Mr. Justice Astbury, in the Chan- cery Division, held that the trust was not invalid.":
an" to Shanghai, is assuming first class political importance, follow- ing the suspension of Tai Shek-fo, Chief of Police of Greater Shang- hai, by order of Marshal Chiangi Kai-shek. It appears that Tai Shek-fo was informed at 1.20 a.. on Nov. 23 that 20 soldiers were landing a quantity of oplum on. the Nantao bund, into a motor! lorry and two motor-cars, alleged to be the property of the Garrison Commissioner, Hsiung Shih-huei.
Tai Shek-fo sent a party of police to investigate, and if. neces- sary to seize the opium, but the ing Squad will attend at Central for that the decision was wrong and military arrested the police and Squad Drill, etc. on Thursday, Dec.that the proviso in the will was carried off the opium to the native at 5.30 p.m. under. Sergeant P. void. city. Incidentally, the military Condon. Dress-Mufti. censor prohibited the vernacular papers from printing the news of this incident.
Main Interest
Chinese Co.
Mr.
There sons and a daughter of Villar contended, through their counsel, Sír T. Hughes, KC,
About 120 Living
Sir Thomas Hughes said that in | The Signalling Squad will attend 1922 the living descendants of at the Company's Headquarters for Queen Victoria numbered about 120. Instruction in morse and semaphore They were scattered over a large under Mr. R. C. Wilson on Friday, part of the world. Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. *
Indian Co.
The will restriction would have the effect of postponing the dis- tribution of the estate for about 100 years. It woul probably be impossible then toive that all Queen Victoria's descendants were
One outcome of the case has been the detention of the as "Klangan" on her arrival at Nan- king yesterday morning, Captain Parade. All ranks of the Indian Steward, and the chief engineer, Company, are reminded of the Mr. Ross, being sent to the Bri-parade to be held at the Central tish Consulate, while the Chinese Police Station on Tuesday, Dec. 4 dead. The cost of proving it would crew of 23 have been detained by at 5.30 p.m. sharp. the Nanking District Court.
Flying Squad
be enormous.
Lord Justice Lawrence.—It would
Sir
The suspension of Tal Shek-fo The weekly Instructional patrol of 1 has resulted in strong protests the Kowloon Section will take place be easy to ascertain who are des- from the local Kuomintang and on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Fall in at the cendants of Queen Victoria living other organizations, who have wir Talm-tea-tsui Fire Brigade Station to day. ed to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter that his orders are open to critic The Weekly Instructional patrol of quiries into foreign laws and whe- ism unless Hsiung Shi-huei bej also suspended, peading an inves- the Hong Kong Section will take ther marriages had been morgana-
place on Thursday, Dec. 6. Fall in tie. tigation of the whole affair.
Jat
Uniform.
Thomas Hughes. There would have to be all sorts of in-
at the Central Police Station at 6.15 The Master of the Rolls said that The main Chinese Interest, how-pm, sharp. Dress Winter Uni- he thought it would be easier than ever, centres in the fact that it is form. reported Tai Shek-fo acted under
Sharpshooters' Co.
100 years ago when registrations were imperfect...
the orders of General Feng Yu- Revolver Practice, Members are halang, while Hsing Shi-huei is reminded that revolver practice will sons of Royal origin were not of the Sir Thomas Hughes said that per-
Reuter.
a protege of Chiang Kai-shek, be carried out at Kennedy road same conspicuous position to-day as Range on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 10 am.: they used to be and their Identity they will assemblo at the range at
might be lost h that hour with revolvers and belts. Equipment etc.
"LINDY "
FLIGHTS WITH PRETTY PASSENGERS
Once again attempts are being made to link Colonel Lindbergh's Iname with matrimonial intentions,
The aviator has set tongues wagging by taking two girls for a flight in his seroplane at the Teter- |boro aerodrome. Recently, when “Lindy" took two women aloft from | Long Island ́Field, it was carefully explained that one was the mother and the other the wife of one of the Guggenheims, his sponsors,
The attention of members of the Chinese Company and of other units are drawn to G. 0. No, 68 dated Nov. 6, and instructions contained there in must be adhered to.
(Sgd.).D. L. KING, D.S.P.-(R),
Adjutant. Hong Kong, Dec. 4, 1928.-
SHANGHAI STRIKE
Shanghai, Yesterday.
Thirteen hundred tram and bus.
The Court dismissed the appeal, In giving judgment, the Master of the Rolls said that the testator had imposed a period of restriction which, inconvenient though it might be, did not offend against any car- non of law...
HIS LAST VERDICT
REFEREE SAYS IT WAS A PERFECT ACCIDENT”
employes in the French Concession Abel Tulett (46), of West Honthly, "It was a perfect accident," said struck this morning demanding before died at East Grinstead wage increases
from injuries received in a coll But the latest pair were nobody's The stoppage is epected also to slon between his motorcycle and wives or mothers. They were just affect the water supply and electric, a motorcycle combination. young, pretty and vivacious girla supply, which are under the same Death was due to Internal ̈ in- And one resembled Elizabeth management as the tramways juries, and at the inquest a ver Morrow, daughter of the American Rant Ambassador to Mexico, who, was re-
Dec. 7) 5 pm. Registration (Dec. 8) 9.45 am." Letters (Dec. 8). 10.80 n.m.
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cently reported ti be engaged to
Lindbergh
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“Correspondance hearing vessel's name only,
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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
dict of Accidental Death was Te corded. The driver of the other | vehicle!› was exonerated from
blame.
6 Tulett was well, known
Americans even more determined to The closing rate of the dollar on East Grinstead district: as marry-off, their har
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