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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1940

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Seaforth Man's Suicide In Officer's Quarters MOTIVE BAFFLES SHANGHAI POLICE

AIRMAN WITHOUT A PASSPORT

From Scotland comes the story of an

R.A.F. officer who shot down a German 'plane. The pilot managed to make a forced land- Ing.

Thinking that he would visit his antagonist in hospital, the R.A.F. officer put up the sugges- tion to the Service authorities. They saw no objection. On the contrary they thought that It might serve a useful purpose,

Armed with the Alr Ministry approval he approached the Home Office. Here again difficulty was raised.

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That the visit should be pectly In order the R.A.F. officer Informed the local police of his intention. Here he met with a blank refusal. He was informed that the

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under arrest as who had landed without even a passport.

TECHNICAL WORK OF LEAGUE TO GO ON

(Special to "China Mail," from Our Own Correspondent).

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. POLICE AND THE BRITISH MILITARY AUTHORI- TIES ARE BAFFLED AS TO THE MOTIVE FOR THE SUICIDE YESTERDAY OF A POPULAR MEMBER OF THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, FOUND SHOT DEAD IN THE QUARTERS OF SECOND LIEUTENANT C. M. GRIGG.

The dead man is Joseph Roy and he was the batman of Second Lieutenant Grigg, with whom he was talking only a few minutes before the tragedy.

VIGILANTES TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES

The shooting occurred in the Race Club Building, where the Seaforth Highlanders officers are quartered.

Shortly after cleven o'clock yester- day morning, Lieutenant Grigg left his quarters in the Company of a brother afficer.

Immediately afterwards, as for as the affair can be reconstructed, Roy proceeded to the kitchenette, where he sat down In

chair near the kitchen sink and then, presumably, fired the officer's platol, killing himself instantly. The military authorities and lice are investigating the case,

BROTHER MAY BE IN H.K.

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The City Self-Preservation Corps (sometimes called the "Vigilantes"), which was or- ganised in September last, will be withdrawn from the streets after Chinese New Year. There are 1,740 mem- It is understood that Roy's brother is also a Seaforth Highlander and bers in Hong Kong and Kow-had been in Shanghai with him. He loon.

is at present on his way to Britain, The Corps' records, however, will and may possibly be in Hong Kong be kept and the Corps can

awaiting a ship connection. be re- organised and put

The inquest on Roy is on the streets

probably whenever an emergency requires.

opening to-day. Our Own Corres- Meetings were held

pondent.

between the Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, the heads of the different sections of the Corps, and the S.C.A., au a result of which it was decided to auspend the activity of the Vigilantes for the time being. A League of Nations' com- Since the Corps was formed, its mittee, consisting of the re-members have brought in over 200 police cases, and the authorities admit presentatives of ten States that during its term of active-life Australia, Argentine, Turkey, burglaries and thefts have con- Belgium, Holland, Norway, siderably_decreased. Portugal, Switzerland, the

London, To-day.

United Kingdom-meets at YUNNAN

The Hague on February 7.

This body arises out of the recom- mendations of a Committee appointed on May, 1939, presided over by Mr. S. M. Bruce to consider and report on the best methods of separating the technical work of the League from political activities owing to a general feeling that the former has been un- duly subordinated to the latter.

RAILWAY

OUTRAGE

recently

Kunming, To-day. Rescue and identification work connected with Thurs-

The Committee's special object was day's raid on the Kunming- to facilitate the cooperation of non- Member States in the League's econo- mic, financial and sociological activi-

ties.

In a Report adopted by the As- sembly in December, Mr. Bruce's Committee recommended the ap: pointment of a "Central Committee" with the duty of arranging for sup- ervising, extending, and directing the non-Political work of the League.

MUCH SPADEWORK

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Haifong Railway Line is more complicated than ever follow- ing Saturday's raid.

Some 150 were killed and injured when Japanese planes bombed the north-bound train, and the fact that the passenger-car, in which all of Thursday's damage was done, completely destroyed has added dif- ficulty for the officials who rushed to the scene.

Was

The only casualty names so far In order to implement the recom- divulged are those of the wife of M. mendation the League Assembly de-Daviet, French District Inspector con- cided to appoint an "Organizing Com- nected with the railway, and their mittce" and it is this body which is child. meeting at the Hague.

It is hoped in official quarters that the organizing committee will prove to be the nucleus out of which the Central Committee will grow, but it is pointed out that much spadework must be accomplished before this hoped for result can be reached and the work now to be undertaken at the Hague is necessarily of a preparatory nature and no final or far reaching decisions are anticipated at this stage. -British Wireless.

M. Daviet is at present in Chung- king-Reuter.

FRENCH AMBASSADOR

LEAVES MOSCOW

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") - Moscow, To-day. The French Ambassador, M. Paul. Emile Nagglar, left for France, this evening for a furlough of undetermin- ed duration. Havas.

JAPANESE ARREST. WANG "AIDE"

Shanghai, To-day. One of Wang Ching-wel's followers, Wang Mun-yun, head of the "pup-

L.M.S. TRAIN WRECKED BY LANDSLIDE

London, To-day.

One woman was killed and se. veral other passengers were in- Jured when the Northampton to London train of the London, Mid- land and Scottish Raliway ran Into a landslide near Watford.

Five landslides have been re- ported on the Southern Railway In the last 24 hours.-Router.

TURKEY AGAIN HIT BY QUAKE

Ankara, To-day. Turkey has been hit by another severe earth- quake.

Forty-five persons were killed out- right and scores were badly injured in two villages which were complètely destroyed.

The worst of the shock was felt in the neighbourhood of Erzindjan.

Tremors had been felt every day since December 27, 1939, throughout the whole of Northern Anatolia, but they have been be coming more frequent and violent in the past 48 hours. pet" department of social affairs, was

The sorely-hit population arrested by the Japanese yesterday. Reason for the arrest was ...not clared to be in a state of terror... divulged. Our Own Correspondent. | Reuter.

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