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NEW SETBACK TO GREECE

PREMIER FOUND DEAD

IN BED

COALITION GOVERNMENT SEEN AS LIKELY SEQUEL

- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Athens, To-day.

The entire Greek nation was stunned yester- day by the news of the sudden death of the Pre- mier, M. Demerdzis, who was found dead in bed by his valet yesterday morning, the Premier hav- ing apparently succumbed to an apoplectic stroke in the course of the night. Greece has thus lost three of her leading statesmen in the course of a few months, General Kondylis having likewise passed away unexpectedly last January, while only a few weeks ago M. Venizelos died.

The Deputy Premier and War Minister, General Metaxas, was received shortly before noon by the King, to whom he ten- dered the collective resignation of the Cabinet. The King imme- diately entrusted General Metaxas with the task of forming a new Government. At five in the afternoon the General had already taken his oath of office as Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, all the other Ministers retaining their posts.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936

Riots and martial law followed in the wake of the general election in Spain, in which a coalition party headed by Manuel Azana (left), former Premier, and Francisco Largo Caballero Rich (right). Socialist leader, gained control of Parliament. members of the Rightist Party are reported to be freeing as a ware of disorders has swept the country.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

His Excellency the Commander-

WEDDING AT UNION CHURCH, KOWLOON

Muir - MacBean

BRIDE'S ARRIVAL DELAYED

- FROM VANCOUVER

The marriage of Mr. William C Muir, of the Hong Kong Dairy Farm. Ice and Cold Storage Co.. Ltd, to Miss Isobel MacBean, of Vancouver, which was unavoidably postponed from Saturday last owing to the late arrival in the Colony of the bride, was solemnis- ed at the Union Church; Kowloon, yesterday afternoon, the Rev. J. D. MacLean officiating.

The bride, who was given away? by Mr. A. Stevenson, made a charming picture in a white lace dress with white cape and small turban hat. She carried a bou- quet of yellow and orange gladioli.

Miss E. Thomson, as bridesmaid, wore a blue and white dress and carried a bouquet of pink roses. Mrs. J. D. Thomson was Matron of Honour and the duties of best man were undertaken by Mr. E. Graye.

Mr. J. Anderson Miller presided at the organ.

It is, nevertheless, not considered unlikely that the death of M. Demerdzis may have important repercussions on the domes-in-Chief. Sir Charles Little. will Catholic Women's tic situation and eventually lead to the formation of a Coalition inspect the Naval Volunteer Force vices Branch) will be held at the present to felicitate the happy Government on a broad Parliamentary basis, with MM. Sophoulis, on board H.M.S. Cornflower to Maryknoll Tsaldaris and Metaxas as the leading figures,

CHEUNG CHAU NOTES

Influx of Visitors

For Holidays

Following the ceremony, a re-i ception was given by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Thomson at their residence The monthly meeting of the in Waterloo Road, at which a League (Ser large number of friends were

Conrent, Chatham couple. day. A motor-boat leaves Don-Road, on Friday. April 17, at 5 nachy Road pier (off Gloucester p.m. Newcomers to the Colony The death of M. Demerdzis came Road) at 6 pm.

are cordially invited. as a complete surprise, since the

The monthly meeting of the The ss. Rajputana left Singa-¦ Premier appeared to have fully! recovered from his recent illness. Catholic Women's League (Ser- pore at noon on Saturday and is Service Medal Awards On Sunday he made an excursion vices Branch) will be held at the expected to arrive in Hong Kong

Convent, Chatham at 11 am with his

subse- Maryknoll daughter and

Friday next at 5 p.m. carrying the outward English quently spent the evening with Road, on his family, retiring shortly before Newcomers to the Colony are cor-mails. 11 p.m. When the 'valet entered dially invited.

his master's chamber yesterday.

,

to-morrow She is

ST. JOHN BRIGADE

قوم

SIX CHINESE HONOURED

His Royal Highness the Duke) The as. Bhutan was expected to of Connaught, the Grand Prior of Chenng Chau. Yesterday.

morning at 9. he found him dead. The R.M.S. Empress of Britain, leave Singapore for Hong Kong the Venerable Order of the Hos- jpital of St. John of Jerusalem, has The Easter holidays ended het in bed.

continuing her world cruise, arithis morning and is due here on

been approved the issue of the Service] ter than they began the three Physicians expressed the opin- rived at Yokohama on Sunday and Saturday. The vessel has

ledal to the following members camps of boy scouts had a wet ion that the Premier had passed will leave for Honolulu at 8 p.m. delayed four days.

of the Railway Division. Hong start. Another drawback was away peacefully at about five in to-morrow,

A Chinese. Au

Kong:- due to the ferry company seeing the morning as the result of

Private Kan ti Wah, Sergeant it to take the Sun Chow of the apoplectic stroke. On receiving A Dinner Dance will be held siding at an annumbered hut at

Kun Ngok substituting for it

the King immediately at Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow Wang Hang Village. Shaukiwan, Chau Yuk, Private.

was admitted to the Government Sang. Private Tsang Lun small craft which was uncomfor-proceeded to the late Premier's at 8.30 p.m.

Civil Hospital yesterday suf- Private Li Ping Tsan and Private tably crowded. Also the electric residence to pay him his last res

fering from injuries received Leung Chung Yin. light company had the streets uppects.

when a rock fell on him at Sai-

run and

a the news

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to lay the underground cables. In a statement to press repre- On Sunday morning. thanks to sentatives General Metaxas gave the Rev. A. R. Gallimore, we were expression to the grief caused by able to hold a service. He gave the Premier's death, pointing out

BRITAIN LOSES

3 ISLANDS

a helpful Easter message based that M. Demerdzis had renounced i Taken For Air Routes

on the words "I am the Resur- the secluded life of a savant rection and the Light." The plat-jassume a strenuous death. form was decorated with pot

plants kindly supplied by Mrs. E. Barker, to whom our thanks are: due.

POLITICAL CAREER

to

wan-ho.

Tak-man: remi

Lau Kam, unemployed, was fined $5, in default two weeks" imprisonment, by Mr. E. Hime- worth at the Central Magistracy this morning on a charge of steal- TITLE DEEDS NEVER CLEAR ing brass curtain rods from the Tatsuta Maru at Taikoo

By United States

8.5.

two

BAND

CONCERT

BY kind permission of Lieut.-

Colonel A. C. Marsh and Officers, the Band of the 2nd Bn. The East Lancashire Regiment will play at the

PENINSULA HOTEL

"ON

SUNDAY, 19th APRIL, 1936.

Commencing at 9 p.m.

No admission charge.

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

SAYS the giggling Dairy

Farm COW: "He's so cute!

I mean - He's so cute! -

I wish I played opposite him

I just adore

HAROLD LLOYD in "THE MILKY WAY.”

We are the purveyors of the Dairy Farm T. B. Free Milk.

LBL,

MOTHER WITH 6 CHILDREN

THE ACE

OF PLUGS

Lives On 7s. 9d. A Week.

TRAGIC COURT STORY

M. Constantine Demerdzis was born in 1876 at Athens, and Three tiny Pacific islands, Docks.. This morning a further influx studied at Greek and German uni-marked on all the maps as Bri-

been A fine of $5, in default of, visitors arrived in connection versities. Subsequently be occu- tish possessions, have with the "Fraternity. Kowloon. Pied the chair of Roman and civil colonised and claimed by Amer weeks hard labour, was imposed

At Stratford Police Court last on Wong Ming, unemployed, by

Ilford mother was A party of about 30 people arrived law at the University of Athens, ca.

They are Howland, Jarvis and Mr. E. Himsworth at the Central month on the 7 a.m. ferry and were ac- He entered politics in 1910, when commodated at No. 18A. They all he was elected to the Chamber as Baker Islands, uninhabited coral Magistracy this morning for the charged with attempting to com- spent a very enjoyable day, re- member of the Liberal Party. In islands, treeless and without theft of iron rods from the Gov-mit suicide. turning at 4 p.m. Several house- 1913 he was appointed Minister of fresh water. With the possi-lernment Quarry at Tsat Taze Mui. Marine in the Venizelos Cabinet, bility of trans-Pacific air routes Mr. H. Hall, Inspector of Works owners also came over for

the quarry was the com- holidays. Our Own Correspon- resigning one year later. In 1914 they suddenly became import at

he again became Minister ofjant.

plainant

dent.

the

WITCHCRAFT AT HOSPITAL?

Lying Man Curses A Mirror

STICKS FAST TO TABLE

For over 12 months, it WTAR stated, she had been trying to clothe ad feed herself and S

Her children on 7s. 9d. a week. husband, who had been ill for Marine in the Zainis Cabinet and "The title deeds to the islands

A farewell dinner to Mr. and several months, died last Novem subsequently he founded the Pro-have never been very clear." it gressive Party.

was stated at the Foreign Office Mrs. L. A. Barton organised by ber.

She is Mrs. Violet Baker, aged In 1926 he was a candidate for last month.

the St. Teresa's Chinese Young the Presidency but withdrew "We thought we had a claim Men's Society on its premises was 35, of Beehive-lane, Ilford, E., and when the dictator, General Pan-to the islands, but if America well attended by the representa- she was remanded for a week for a glos, failed to give the desired has formally annexed them, and tives of the various organisational medical report.

confraternities guarantees for the freedom of the has established her claim in and election. 1. Demerdzis then re-international law, we shall not Teresa's parish. tired to private life, resuming his dispute the ownership."

Uncertainty lectures in the University.

of the St. Her 12-year-old daughter found.

her by a gas jet, and for nearly 20 minutes a police officer applied artificial respiration before she

has lain in ILLEGAL SALES OF recovered. She then said: Last November, when Generali. The uncertainty

DRINK Kondylis resigned the Premier- the different theories of annexa-

British and! Sault Sainte Marie Michigan) ion with the King on the question satisfy the British it is neces-

ship owing to differences of opin- tion held by the

American Governments. To

London's Clubs In The strange case of a dying of the amnesty, M. Demerdzia was

West End -man's "spell," cast on a mirror in commissioned to form an interimsary to make only one symbolic!

hospital here, is puzzling scien- Cabinet After the January elec- act of ownership -the dis-

tists.

"I wanted to fling myself under the first car that passed. I have this feeling every three days, and I ́often think I ought to take my own life and that of my children. We should be much better off.”

"Let Me Go Home" Inspector William Smith said

was and of that 22x. 8d. went in rent.

covery of an island, the planting Edward Kearney, summoned at tions he handed in his resignation of the British flag, or a tem-Wood Green last month for selling As the man, Jeffery Derosier, to make room for a Parliamentary porary colonisation. For the drink without a licence and after the woman's. husband died in an ex-soldier, lay dying, he called Government, but after the efforts Americans, continuous posses- prohibited hours at the Avenus November last after a long illness. for a mirror. Looking into it, he to form a Coalition Cabinet had sion must be established.

Club, Bounds Green-road, was She was receiving 32s. 6d, a week, found himself face to face with failed he was again called upon death.

An agreement has just been fined a total of £520. He Jon March 14 to assume the Pre-reached between the New Zea allowed a month in which to pay. Then she had to pay 2s. 1d. for Others in the ward heard him

miership.—Trans-Ocean Service. land Government and the Pan- the alternative being six months coal and was left with 75. 9d. to exclaim at the appearance of his

American Airways for a service imprisonment. eyes and face.

between San Francisco and The club was struck off the children.

It was A month after her husband's been death she was found wandering at for Romford. Owing to her hardship the she was in a distressed and de-}

the mirror from him.

in

“I'm dying," he said, and threw ice axe. It was just a plain piece Auckland, to begin this year register for five years.

of looking glass, without a back The route will be over the newly stated that Kearney had It landed face downward on a The surface was clean and show-annexed islands and all bases, several times heavily fined metal table. A nurse went tojed no signs of any adhesive.

(except the New Zealand (similar offences at clubs Scientists are disinclined to ac-terminal, will be on

America West End. "You won't be able to pick it cept the theory that the mirror territory, according to the up, the dying raxn said slowly, was "bewitched" by the dying agreement When they went to him he dead,

pick it up.

ΤΟΣ

Stuck Fast

WEB MAT They suggest, however,}

that those round him might have been bewitched by some kind of

WEATHER REPORT

MOTOR RACING IN MOSCOW

(Continued from Page 1)

feed and clothe' herself and six

licate condition.

"Let me go home, let me go home,” she cried as the bench said she could be remanded

MEMORY OF KIMBERLEY

Ex-soldiers who were present atį

Six witnesses are ready to hypnosis.

The anti-cyclone over China swear that some strange spell The only other explanation has extended eastward to the seems to have fallen on the mix scientists in New York can offer Loochoos; pressure is apparent- |

is that the surface of the mirrorly highest over Mongolia. The Berchtesgaden: Immediately on For 24 hours a doctor, another and of the table were both so depression has passed into the learning of the result of the Grand the relief of. Kimberley 36 years patient and four nurses tried in smooth that no air space existed Pacific to the east of Japan. Priz de Monaco, Chancellor Hitler ago took part in commemorating vain to remove it from the table.between the two

a wreath was and they were East winds, moderate; cloudy. wired to Caracciola: "My heartiest the event when It was stuck fast.

held together by a molecular at-probably some drizzle, was the congratulations on your first vic-placed last month on the Carabin- At last Miss Adeline Knopf, a traction, or by a combination of forecast for to-day, as issued by tory in 1936-Trans-Ocean Ser-iers Memorial, Chelsea Embank- nurse, forced it away with" an ̈suction and air pressure,

the Royal Observatory this vice.

ment, by Capt. V. H. Barnard.

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