THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1939
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CLIMB TO WHERE BROTHER DIED
Climbing 3,000ft. up the snow-covered slopes of Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire, Dr. James Robert- son Russell, of Castleton, Belfast, was the other day taken by guides to the spot where his brother, Alexander Scott Russell, was kill- ed while glissading (sliding).
There, too, he recovered his brother's ice-axe.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Heard at Court:-
Willesden
Police
Man: The last time I saw my wife's mother we were on friend- ly terms. That is, we were just speaking to each other.
Husband: I never ask my wife any questions. If I did she wouldn't answer me, so I have de- cided it's no use asking.
THREE MAYORS VISIT
U.S. WARSHIP
The funeral took place at Glen Nevis burying ground, where lies the victim of the last tragedy five years ago on Britain's highest mountain.
Mr. Alexander Scott, who was forty-five and a research chemist, lived at Cambridge-park, Redland, Bristol. He was glissading down the slopes with two companions when he lost control and crashed into a sharp rock sticking out of the snow.
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FIRE UNDER STATION
ESCALATOR
Flames
coming through the chinks of the escalator at Monu- ment Station in the City, one of the busiest on the London Underground The Mayors of Rochester, Cha- railway, alarmed some of the pas- tham, and Gillingham visited the sengers, The escalator was prompt- United States flotilla leader, Jouett, ly stopped and the service from the which is anchored in the Medway. station suspended, Firemen found They were accompanied by their grease smouldering under the es- mace-bearers, and were piped on calator and soon smoke filled the continued to board. The Mayor of Rochester, station, but trains Councillor C. S. Knight,
re pass through. The fire is believed ceived in his capacity as Admiral to have been caused by a lighted of the Medway. Previously the cigarette end. Jouett's commander, Cmdr. Guy
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Clark, had been welcomed by the THIEVES RÄID ÖFFICES
Chatham Town three Mayors at
Hall.
SHAKESPEARE
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COMMEMORATION
Representatives of theatrical and Shakespearean organisations attend- ed a commemoration service in St. Paul's Cathedral at 3.15 p.m. on the poet's birthday.
A BIG NOISE IN THE UNITED STATES.--Testing out a 14- This inch disappearing gun at one of America's coastal batteries. huge gun in its permanent concrete bed seems to indicate that the coastal defence system in the United States leaves nothing to be de- sired. Photo shows a striking picture as the huge 14-inch gun bèl- ches forth a deadly missile for practice purposes.
RE-EMPLOYED AND KILLED
Four hours after he had started work after a year's unemployment, Thieves entered a building in James Richmond, 55, of Mariners- Shaftesbury-avenue, W., and secur- street, Lowestoft, fell nine feet ed £80 in cash from the offices of from a scaffold and was killed. Wakefield. Fortune and Co., travel agents.
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R. A. F. BOMBER CRASH
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NIGHT WATCHMAN ATTACKED.
Mr. George Baunder, a night watchman, who discovered a slight Pilot Officer Charles Edward "outbreak of fire at the timber yard. Jones, attached to the R. A. F. sta- of G. Cole, Ltd., Manor-gårdens, tion at Hemswell, Lincs, was kill Holloway, N., was attacked by two from the yard and of a bomber at men, who ran ed in the crash
escaped. Sunk Island. Holderness Yorks.
TROUSERS STOLEN
Trousers which the barman had bought were stolen by a burglar from the bar of the Crown Hotel, Framlingham, Suffolk,
The raider drank five bottles of beer, took the money from a col- lecting-box for the blind, but over- looked some cash on a shelf.
The previous night's takings had been removed.
HORSES LOST IN STABLE FIRE
Two horses and a dog were burn- ed to death and two firemen, Ed- 'ward Brown and George Setters, of the Willesden station, were injured by the collapse of a wall in a fire in stables at Buckingham-mews Harlesden. N. W.
LINER LAUNCHED
The twin-screw passenger and cargo steamer Aska, launched by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richard- son Ltd., Wallsend from their Nep- tune shipyard, is the 17th they have built for the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd,
BRUISE-DEATH
Mr. Percy Ralph Carter, ploneer motorcoach proprietor, of Weston super Mare, grazed his finger while adjusting the fixings of a charabanc body. Ten days later he hás
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