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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS PLANE CRASHES: TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED
LECPL, LBCPS, LM (Rot Dublin), D.T.M. and H. (London), Deputy Director of Medical, and Sanitary Services for the Colony
CARNIVAL SPIRIT IN LONDON
NEW YORK'S NOISY GREETING
LIFE BECOMES BETTER IN MOSCOW
London, To-day.
The New Year was heralded at St. Paul's Cathedral in a new fashion. The cathedral was
The Hon. Dr. W. & A. More flood-lit, and Christmas trees, sent from the park at Sandringham, stood in the portico, aflame with thousands of electric lights. Outside, the cele who has just received the honour brations, attended by many thousands of people, took the form of community singing, assisted by loud-speakers. The bells of the cathedral rang out a peal at midnight.
of the Order Empire.
of the British
NEW YEARS HONOURS
Two-Local Doctors Decorated
DR. W. B. A. MOORE AND DR. R. M. GIBSON
London. Yesterday. Among the New Year's Honours are gazetted the fol jowangit
“Officer of the Under of the British Empire: Dr. W. B. A Μαστέλ
Member of the Order of the ritish Empire: Dr. R. M. Gib
Elsewhere in the metropolis there were many gay scenes of Welcome to the year 1936. Not since the Jubilee Celebrations has so much carnival spirit been abroad. Many women played host at Leap Year's Eve parties, and there were brilliant scenes in the West End, where over 60.000 revellers participated.
New York: The foisiest, gayest, and most convivial celebra- tions since 1928-1929 greeted the entry of the New Year.
SUNDERLAND BEATEN
Manchester City Lose
To Grimsby
RANGERS DEFEAT CELTIC
the
Mayor La Guardia lifted the „anti-noise ban, with the result that thousands of people assembled in ¡Times Square armed with ti
trumpets, whistles and rattles, and unfoosed a thunderous burst of
rocal and mechanical music.
29
1936 in huge electric figures,
fleshed from the top of the
scraper → restaurants, which, in some cases, charged a pound or two more per head than last year, and were even then unable to ac- commodate
the celebrants.
Eleven hundred New York baze were granted night-long licences as compared with 700 last year. Over 1200 policemen were on duty in the Times Square district.
MOSCOW'S MERRIMENT
The 90-foot Tricksristic cross, rained at Liza, Pere, during first National Eucharistie Congress held in Pern, recently. front of the cross figure of the Virgin, Patron Saint of the Peru Tian army, was expised. Over 50,000 persons attended each day of the conv€96..
UNITED FRONT IN EGYPT PETITION TO BRITAIN
Archbishop of Canterbury and The Rangers and Celtic were Stalin's latest pronunciamento: enabling her, inter alia, to joint
CHESS OF YORK
Satisfactory Progress Being Made
London, Tod
A bulletin states that HRS the Duchess of York cortiones do make progress. The condition of the lung is improving satisfaz- torily, though necessarily sin
DANANE
Only After Fierce Engagement
ITALIANS SEIZE
ACCIDENT OUTSIDE
ALEXANDRIA
INDIA BOUND MACHINE
LOST IN SEA
ALL-NIGHT SEARCH BY SERVICE VESSELS FOR WRECKAGE
London, To-day..
~~News has reached here that the Imperial. Airways liner City
of Khartoum was wrecked in the Mediterranean while on a trip from Crete to Alexandria on Tuesday BMS Brilliant found the wreckage of the flying boat and picked up the pilot, who is named Wilson, but the whereabouts of the other three members of the crew, the engineer, Amor, the wireless operater, Baker, and the steward Richardson, is unknown.
Is the liner At present in mot yet known how many pass
but a destroyer and the Imperial Airways liner Hannibal, frour A andria, are segrejing for the missing plane
~The Admiralty discloses that nine passengers, whose so far are uncertain, and three members of th eer Amor, telegraphist Baker and steward Rich
in the crash and subsequent sinking of the Esty of Khartoum et 7.15 pm yesterday a mile am the entrance to Alexandria harbour...
Destroyers, tugs and ships. bolts searched all right long. land aircraft took part at day- light, but the pilot. Captain WI- son is the only survivor picked up so far. The pilot's report, to- gether with the fact that ro vreckage has so far been fou
festes that the fly
ak Sweeping Colu
Airways fying
Khartoum while voyaging
FOUR NEW PEERS
GOMER BERRY HONOURED
FARD
skype, Tou Crete to Alexandria, resulted Käights Bachelorships the death of nine passengers and been awarded in the New Year's (three members of the crew. The Honours lista
only survivor was the pilot. Cap- tain V. G. Wilson.
The drowned passengers, cording to the passenger fist
British: Captain B. F. Mason, of
Lord Hanworth and Air Mar- shal Lord Trenchard Master of the Rolls and head of the Metro-
be politan Police respectivel come Viscounts, Eg
Baronies are conferred on Sir
London, To-day. Aston Villa supplied the big- Grand Cross of the Order of
m yesterday's gest surprise St Michael and St. George: Sir Home soccer programme when
BEING SYMPATHETICALLY CONSIDERED Robert Clive British Ambassa- they beat Sunderland, dop to Japan
ipresent leaders, by 3 goals to 1
Cairo, To-day. In addition the Royal Vic- in their away encounter, while
Mr Anthony Eden, British torian Chains has been bestow Grimsby performed very credit ed on HBH. the Duke of Kent ably to beat Manchester City on
Moscow: The first official cele-Foreign Minister, has replied The Order is 2 decoration the latter's ground. founded by King Exiward and is In the Second Division Man-bration of New Year since the Be-sympathetically to the request conferred only on special occa-chester United surprised Barns-volution tumed out to be the mer from the United Front for Bri- sions. It is held only by per ester be stay Lesh, and riest. Schocin, factories, hotels tain's acceptance of the draft sons of great distinction. The Bradford showed no quarter to and theatres vied with one another treaty of 1930, providing for
Fiz zu holders include His Grace the Leicester.
attempt to demonstrate the independence of Egypt and the League. The request also featured in a high scoring Life Has Become Better." match on the latter's ground. Thousands of people thronged urged freedom from capitala- and the Scottish League cham-the markets all day long purchas- tion to the existence of Euro- pions won the day by the odd ng Christmas trees, which were pean direction in the public sex NEW YEARS EVE AT FRONT den on December 28 and joined the Bank of India, and 535 Im Mae-
a heathen (curity department, and refers to goal in seven, while Aberdeen hitherto condemned as were forced to share four goals, survival. Twenty-five thousand the non-existence of an ade- at Dundee.
merrymakers stated and danced to quate defence force.
The point on which the 1930| as cabled by Reuter, the strains of a military jazz band Results
at the Ice Excival in the city's negotiations broke down was the Wafd demand for the recognition central park
Numerous places of sunsement of Egyptian sovereignty over the remained open all night long and Sudan
© (Continued on Page 12) 3 the managers state that there was 1ess vodka and more wine drink-i 3ling than hitherto, consequently there was less drunkenness than on
Lord Derby: Reuter
(Continued on Page 12)
LINDBERGHS IN ENGLAND
Staying With Relatives In Cardiff
STATEMENT PENDING.
London, Yesterday.
were:
FIRST DIVISION Blackburn 1 Brentford Bolton
4 Portsmouth Manchester C. 0 Grimsby Middlesboro 3 West Brom.
1. Aston Villa
SECOND DIVISION
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh Sunderland are expected to stay with rela- tives in Cardiff for the next Barnsley week or so. Colonel Lindbergh By
is shortly making a public state-Newcastle ment regarding his plans Reuter.
An earlier message said that the as. American Importer docked at the Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, - at 11.15 am. on Tuesday.
0
0 Manchester U. 3former occasions Beuter.
0 Southampton.
HORROR & GRIEF
0
8 Plymouth
Sheffield U.
8 Doncaster
0
Bradford
3 Leicester
1
THIRD Carlisle Chesterfield Darlingtom Hartlepools
DIVISION (North) 1. Rotherham
IN SWEDEN
1
2. Bochdale
5 Gateshead
1.Wrexham
The Lindberghs hurriedly board- ed a waiting motor-car, and de New Brighton & Lincoln parted for an undisclosed destins Stockport
Hon
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Arbroath
1 Cresve
1 Albion SCOTTISH LEAGUE
0 Kilmarnock t
2Italian Crime Against
International Law
1 EMPEROR'S. CONDOLENCES
TO QUEEN
NEUTRALITY IN AMERICA
WIDER LAW IN PROSPECT DISCUSSION BY CONGRESS
PENDING
Washington, To-day. When the United States Con- gress again convenes to-morr Addis Ababa, Yesterday. it is understood that one of the Ten Italian planes are alleged first acts will be the considers to have participated in the tion of new neutrality destruction of the Swedish Red which problem is rega Dun nline 2 St. Johnstone 6 Cross unit. The total casal extremely urgent our
AN INVITATION ATT
REJECTED
Peiping Students
Obdurate
Felping eiping
Celtic Dandee
1 Queen O'S
3. Rangers
2 Aberdeen
1 Hearts
2 Hamilton
4 Clyde
1 Third LaSITE O fon TuesdayA TO-DAYS GAMES
TISH LEAGUE"
Motherwell
The
ties are still not known. latest report states that all the staff were killed except the commander, Dr. Hylander, Dr. Smith Holn, a male nurse and an orderly. All were wounded. A Stockholm message states that
the Swedish Esc
the bo
confirmal
Lang proceeding to Malayar Mr. Council Federation of the the London form of Mason and Arthur Bem, President of the A. J. Buckman, Mr. W. G. Well- bera of Commerce of the British stead, Mr. Alagarett Eastall, Miss Empire and Unionist MP: for the Eckford and Mrs. A. F. Horman; Park division of Shereld; Sir
Americas: Mr. Cinck;
Gomer Berry, part proprietor of Italian: Mr. Tartaglione,
the Daily Telegraph, Sir Thomas Most of the passenges left Ltd- Cain, chairman of the Mercantile
City of Khartoum at Brindisi. The
pherson, the Recorder of Southbend. three members of the crew were The Baronetcies include "Mr. London, To-day, Apart from a major engage Flying Officer H. J. A. Baker, wire Francis Norie-Miller, chairman of ment at Danane on the Somali- less operator W. J. Amor, and the General Life
Ca land front New Year's Day steward H. C. Richard All and Sir Park Golf, Hon. Registrar of the Imperial, Society of Knights SIX HOURS IN WATER.
Bachelorg the position of the rival armies
The disaster was discovered brought no marked change in were stationed at Alexandria
Include Hz. in the north and south, accord-
Pary Buck, King Edward Profes Bor of Music, University of Lon- |don; Mz P. J. H. Kannen, Union ist Member of Far Moseley district
ing to messages from the vari- when the City of Khartoum falle
to arrive at Alexandria, ous fronts.
A Rome communique claims the where the British destroyer.
liant and other craft were capture of · tow
extreme which took place, solely on rifer
Italian air timate the 100 Luled and It is stated
the issue of
mane,
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that
out to search for the machine They found Captain Wilson and the wreckage" fanar
the harbour
Captain Wilson was formerly In the Royal Air Force, flying me aircraft in England, and Ira an instructor from 1919 to He had been six hours in the when be war"picked up.
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