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·THE CHINA-MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1939.

ANNUAL NAVAL | NO PROOF

PARADE AT HAPPY VALLEY

OF DEBTOR'S DEATH

Remarking that he was more con- OVER 1,000 OFFICERS AND cerned whether or not the debtor MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY|had died; proof of which there was AND ROYAL MARINES PARAD- none, the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl ED AT HAPPY VALLEY THIS MacGregor, adjourned an applica- MORNING WHEN HIS EXCEL- tion for a receiving order against LENCY THE COMMANDER-IN-the estate of Lo Tak, stated to be CHIEF, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR deceased, at the Bankruptcy Ses- PERCY NOBLE, K.C.B., C.V.O.,sions this morning: CARRIED OUT THE ANNUAL The petition was brought by the INSPECTION OF NAVAL LAND- Sing Lee Firm, the Kin Hop Firm, ING FORCES.

and the Wing Cheong Loong firm, The parade was witnessed by a Mr. C. S. Rüss appeared on be- large and distinguished gathering, half of the three petitioners and including His Excellency

had the stated that the debtor, who General Officer - Commanding the traded under the style of the Wo Troops, Major General A. E. Gras-Hing firm, had-assets to the value sett, Lady Noble, Commodore E. B. of about $6,500, while his habilities C. Dicken and Mrs. Dicken, Bri- were approximately $7,000. gadier Thomson, Brigadier N. M. S. Mr. Russ pointed out the urgency Irwin and Mrs. Irwin, Brigadier A. of granting the application, stating Burrowes, Capt. F. C. Barry, Capt. that several creditors had obtain- C. Moody, Capt. E. G. N. Rush-ed judgment against the debtor, brooke, Capt. A. R. Halfhide, and that unless a receiving order Group Capt. A. H. Peck, R.A.F was obtained, the petitioners and Col. V. R. Buckhardt, Eng. Capt. other creditors would get practical- A. K. Dibley, Capt. L. H. Ashmore, ly nothing. Capt. Faye.

was

The Brigade Commander Capt. E. J. P. Brind (H.M.S. Birmingham). while Second-in- Command was Capt. G. C. P. Menzies (H.M.S. Regulus).

Almost to the stroke of 10 a.m. the Commander-in-chief,' mounted and accompanied by his Flag Lieutenant, Lt. Cdr. P. H. Mathe- son, rode onto the Valley from the Golf Club end and was greeted with the General Salute. He then inspected the Brigade accompanied by his staff and Capt. Brind.

Sing Cheung Yau-shun, of the Lee firm, testified in the witness- box this morning that debtor owed him $223.65. Debtor's wife, he said, had told him that her husband had died in the country on November 11.

The Official Receiver (Mr. L. R. Andrewes): "With all this trouble in China, might the debtor not be still alive and unable to come down?"-"I think he is dead-his widow said so, and also his clans-

men."

His Lordship then adjourned the The entire Brigade then marched case for evidence to be produced past in column to the strains of concerning the death of debtor. martial music supplied by the Com- bined Royal Marine Bands of the Fleet.

The Commander-in-Chief, still mounted, was situated at the salut- ing base and as soon as the march past had been completed, address- ed the parade with a hand phone, his speech being broadcast to the officers and men and spectators through amplifiers and speakers.

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His Excellency then led column from the review ground onto the water-front where the Brigade again marched past the Commander-in-Chief in the vicinity of the China Fleet Club.

LITVINOFF TO VISIT WARSAW

Budapest, To-day.

the

SIX MONTHS

FOR SALE OF CHILD

How the child of a 23-year-old widow was sold by a man to whom she had entrusted the child during her absence in Annam was related by Inspector E. G. Post at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning when he prosecuted two women before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen with taking part in a transaction of a minor.

Accused were Lo Chat, aged 45, and Tsui Kiu, aged 52, of Nos. 169 and 189, Tai Nam Street respec- tively.

The widow, stated the Inspector, The visit of the Soviet Foreign was left in poverty after her hus- Commissar, M. Litvinoff, to War-band died. With her 3-year-old saw at the end of January has been boy, she lived with Li Wah in June confirmed in authoritative Polish last year.. As they were still poor quarters according to

news then, she went to Annam, and left organ "Magyar Orszag" which de- the child to the man who asked the clares that Mr. Litvinoff will con- two accused to sell the boy to an fer with the Polish Foreign Minis- unknown boat-woman *for $27.90 ter, Josef Beck, and that the new in October. Soviet-Polish commercial agreement The mother returned from Annam will be signed, the details having at the end of November and found been drawn up before Christmas in that the child had been sold. The Moscow.

Continued at foot of preceding Col.

Con-

Polish circles opine that the Beck- Litvinoff conferences will be fined principally to the Ukrainian question since both States are in- terested in preventing the problem of selfdetermination for 40′′ million

the Ukrainians living in

Soviet

STEFAN ZWEIG Union and Poland from becoming

an

London, Dec. 29.

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(Continued from next Col) two accused received $2.50 and of the respectively out $2.90 $27.90.

Accused were sentenced to months' hard labour each.

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