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DEATH.

On May 3, 1982,

The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Saturday, May 7, 1932.

cess.

FRENCH PRESIDENT ON VERGE

OF DEATH.

(Continued from Page:1.);

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932.

Personal Pars,

Mr. G. Bodiker, the foremost ten- nis player of Canton, left yeater- day on the Empress of Japan.

-A Biographical Note. M. Paul Doumer, who lost five of Mrs. L. Dunbar, the well-known seven sons during the Great War, local racing enthusiast, returned to at one time was Governor-General Shanghai by the Empress of Japan

of Indo-China. He first came be- yesterday. fore the eye of the outside world

News in Brief:

The Hon. Mr. Edwin Richard Hallifax-C.B.E-CMG, --has-been- appointed to act as Colonial Secre tary.

Mr. John Barrów · has been ́ap-. the Officer Administering the Gov- pointed Private Secretary to H.E.

ernment.

last year, by his dramatic defeat of Mr. G. B. Carter, son of the Inte M. Aristide Briand in the election Governor of the Hawaiian Islands, Lieutenant Francis Wynne Webb, for the Presidency. The result was a passenger on the Empress of

,

proved a bitter blow to Briand, and Japan yesterday. may have hastened his death, but ft

Mr. is generally realised that he lost the

J. S. McLaren, District Presidency owing to the unpopular Officer South, went on leave on the foreign policy he had pursued. Empress of Japan, which sailed for

President Doumer, who was born Canada yesterday.

at Aurillac, Cantal, on March 22.

Is

H.E. the O.A.G. has appointed R.A., to be his Alde-de-Camp, with the local rank of Captain.

Thomas

The Hon. Mr. Wilfrid Soutborn, C.M.G. assumed the Ad- ministration of the Government of the Colony yesterday, on the do-

A Spring Jumble Sale, organised

1857, was educated in Paris. In Mr. John Fleming, G.A. of Messrs.parture of H.E. the Governor. 1887 he was "Adjoint au Maire" of Lowe, Bingham and Matthews the town of Laon, Aisne, and was proceeding on home leave to-day on by the Ladies Committee of the elected a Deputy in 1888. From board the s.a. Ranpura. 1895-96 he acted as Minister of

Hord Kong Union Church was held

Finance, and the following year Mr. G. F. Warren, retiring Cana- in the Church Hall yesterday after- was appointed Governor-General of dian Government Immigration French Indo-China, a post which he Officer left for Vancouver on the retained until 1902.

Empress of Japan yesterday.

*

On his retirement from the Orient The was elected President of the Among the passengers leaving Budget Commission, and later, Pre- by the Empress of Japan yesterday sident of the Chamber of Deputies. were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taggart

In 1912 he was elected a Senator who went on six months' furlough. and in 1917 Minister d'Etat. He

has also bean Minister of Finance Col. C. E. Jaques, a retired U.S. (1921-22), Minister of the Senate Army officer from Manila, and Mrs. (1927-81) and President of the Jaques proceeded to America. vin Senate.. He was elected President Canada, on the Empress of Japan of France in 1931. President 'yesterday. Doumer is the author of a book on French Indo-China and another on Metallurgy.

Britain Shocked

London, Yesterday.

The British Offcial news of the which left yesterday. attempted assassination of the

the Dollar

noon, and met with unqualified suc- cess. Brisk sales were made, and soon the tables presented a bare appearance. The proceeds are for Home charities."

appointed the following officers to be his Honorary Aides-de-Camp:- Lieut. James Francia Wright, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, during the absence on leave of Lieut. Harry Owen Hughes; Subedar Major Shah Zamaan Khan, 3/9 Jats; and Subedar Abdul Ghani, Hong Kong and Singapore Brigade, | Royal Artillery,

His Excellency the O.A.G. has

Major-Gen. Sir Neil Malcolm, K.B.E., Chairman of the British North Borneo Company, was a pas- A notice was issued on board the senger on the Empress of Japan.3. President Jefferson, which ar

rived from Shanghai yesterdayTM avening, that owing to the outbreak of meningitis in the Colony, no the ship, during her stay in this port. Large crowds of people gathered to meet the ship, but no.

berthed at No. 5 wharf. intimation of the notice was given

among

visitors would be allowed on board'

until about one hour after she had

paared to be quite normal, but acon

President of the French Republic, Mr. W. T. Goodwin, M. Doumer, which occurred in Paris Ling-agent for Hong Kong arrived this afternoon, has deeply shocked back in the Colony per the 8.8. Pre public opinion here. The King, on sident Jefferson yesterday evening, wrongs, real or imagined, is now a being informed of the outrage, im-after a long furlough. ·· secondary consideration for the mediately telegraphed expressing TANG CHI-NGONG-At his resi- thousands whose means of existence his earnest hopes for the President's Director of Public Works, proceed his grave concern and sympathy and Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, Assistant dence at 37, Gough Street, depends...on a quick return to recovery. Later the French Amed home on retirement on the Em- Hong Kong, Mr. Tang Chi-ngong, aged 74, normal in Shanghai trade and busi-bassador, M. de Fleuriau, was re- press of Japan yesterday, accom-

A mentally deranged Chinese- male was carried on the President after a long liness. Funeral neas. For the Japanese part there ceived by the King at Buckingham panied by Mrs. Goldsmith.

Palace. Expressions of sympathy will take place on Monday, are many reasons why a settlement of the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Mr. W. M. Chalmers, a prominent Kong yesterday evening. When the Jefferson, which, arrived. In Hong May 9, Cortege arriving at the should be effected. Hostile. World Stanley Baldwin, and His Majesty's British business man was

man embarked at Seattle, he ap "Farewell Pavilion," Kennedy

opinion to warlike aggressiveness, Government were formally conveyed the passengers arriving on the Town, at 1 p.m.

İtó M. Fleuriau on his return from round-the-world liner President the apparent need for more troops the Palace.

developed signs of insanity. Ha- Jefferson, yesterday evening.

was transferred to the crews hos to quell the disturbances in Man- The outrage occurred in A

pital base on board the ship and churia, the futulity of the Shang-house near the Elysee, where Passengers on the Empress of

the President was attending Japan yesterday also included kept there throughout the voyage. Thal affair, and the cost of a long

of books Major M. T. Sampson and Mr. measure, to prevent the man from: This was merely a precautionary Д public exhibition campaign all influenced Tokyo's by ex-soldier authors.. The R. D. Gillespie, Directora of the jumping overboard The man, who stand, and explain the modification assailant, upon whom the infuriat-Imperial Chemical Industries Cor has relatives in the Colony, will be

fed crowd immediately fell, had to poration.

landed to-day. Shanghai Improvement. of the original policy.

be protected by the Palice. In passing, a word of tribute to It is reported that "eight shots Mr. and Mrs. D. Bürlinham, Mrs. The events in Shanghai during the foreign delegates who acted as

Slight injuries were L. R. V. Booth and family, Mrs. Tletin of Eastern parts, for the week

The following is the Health bul-- were fired. the past few days have been mediators is due, and Sir Miles M. Paul Guichard, Director General and son, and Sergeant J J. Walsh, 1 case; Bombay 5 cases, 2 deatha Buffered by M. Claude Farrere and Murphy and family, Mrs. J. Murphy ending April 80:--Plague Bassein momentous and of vital importance. Lampson merits particular praise of the Municipal Police. The Pre-D. A. Murphy and W. H. Hill, went Rangoon 1 case, 1 death; Colombo 1. In fact the last week has been the for his skilful handling of a series sident was removed immediately to on-Home leave on the P & Orcase, 1 death. Cholera-Saigon-1 most important period during the

of conferences which in the earlier this evening signed by seven doctors

la neighbouring hospital. A bulletin Ranpura, which, left at noon to-day. case, 1

I death. Small-por-Suez-I whole Shanghai incident, and view stages held little prospect of suc-says: "The President received two Mr. Roscoe Lautzenhiser, accom cases, 5 deaths; Madras-10 cases, 3 case; Bombay-8 cases; Karachi-9 ed in retrospect the satisfactory

The commendable restraint bullet wounds, one in the base of panied by

Mrs, and Miss deaths; Rangoon 41 cases, 15% turn of events is a matter for con of the Japanese Government follow-right shoulder.

the cranium and the other in the Lautzenhiser, were among the pas deaths; Tuticorin 2 cases, 2 deaths; There have been sengera returning to Manlin by the Pondicherry-3 cases, 3 deaths; †gratulation and relief. Commenc ing the bombing outrage tided over no hemorrhages, but serious shock... President Jefferson yesterday Saigon 13 cases, 12-deaths, Can- ing with the shocking affair at a situation that might have develop There have been two blood trans. Mr. Lautzenhiser is connected with ton 17 cases; Shanghai22 cases. Hongkew Park last Friday, hap- ed into an open and declared war fusions. His condition is still the Education Department

of 10 deaths. Cerebro-Spinal Men-- penings were startling and sudden, and the anti-Japanese feeling senti-

ingitis Macao 10 cases, -15 deaths. and through the good sense and ment was considerably lessened as a restraint exercised by the diplomats result. Sympathy is widespread- concerned a situation

tuation fraught with with the victims of the affair, and extreme peril and complications it is pleasing to note that satisfac- A Russian fired several shots atļ Leung Po, coxswain of the 5.8. Was safely passed. The signing of tory progress in reported of all the President Doumer's car in the Man Ying, & ferry boat employed the truce ensures stability of the patients. Mr. Shigemitsu was in proceeding to the exposition. Du service reported to the Police, that Piracy Regulations for having com

Faubourg Du Route, while he was on the Shamshulpo Hong Kong present position at Shanghai and

a dangerous condition yesterday, Livre. The President was trans- while proceeding from Shamshuipo menced a voyage at a time not pre-- the maintenance of the peace that but to-day report is much more ported to Beaujon Hospital. near Tai Kok Tsui, à Chinese female i viously notified and not allowed by has existed since the cessation of reassuring. Whatever one's views The Russian, who has been ar- fell overboard from the third class the Inspector General of Police, hostilities. The truce agreement were of previous happenings, the rested, fired three shots at point portion of the boat. She was Captain John Jacobsen, master

fang, blank range, all lodging - in M. rescued by Lo Shu-tál, coxswain of the Danish 8.5. Gustav, Diederich itself aurprised most people by the bombing was universally condemned Doumer's "abdomen.

the motor boat, "Africa,” and taken sen, pleaded guilty and wan fined extent of concession made by the as a despluable and contemptible The President was immediately to the Water Police Station, where $50, ***** Japanese, who have considerably met.

operated on. His condition is most she refused to be sent to hospital, Sub-Inspector Elaton- cald the serious, A

preferring to return to her home, vessel cleared at 7 pm: amended their original attitude on

The signing of- the- truca

Both M. Tardieu and the Minister at Tai Han Villager

with 300 passengers for the thorny question of withdrawal.

does

ely of Interior rushed to his bedside. That they would have agreed

The outrage occurred at the con-

Foundation Balomon Rothschild, immediate retirement of many

where the President was inaugurat- their troops, with the promi

lug the ex-Soldiers Literary Exhibi- effecting complete withdrawal in four weeks was not anti and the concession

contributed much

reement between

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BOY DROWNED

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grave."-British Wireless Service. Manila.

THREE SHOTS FIRED.

Paris, Yesterday.

His assailant, who is described Dr. Gougoulon, red two more hots almed at the politician Chaïda

ective Guichar

missing. Azzented

TRIAL

WOMAN OVERBOARD.

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MASTER MARINER FINED.

Charged before Mr. T. W. H.. Hosegood at the Marine Court yesterday, under the Suppression of

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