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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LATE MRS. MACASKILL.

LARGELY ATTENDED FUNERAL ON SATURDAY.

The funeral of Mr. Macaskill,

wife of Mr. K. R. Macaskill, of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock. who died at the French Hospital on Friday, took place on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a

large gathering of friends and sympathisers, many of whom were from Kowloon.

The remains were interred at the Protestant cemetery, Happy Valley, the officiating minister

being the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie.

The principal mourners were Mr. K. R. Macaskill, Mr. W. J. Rattey, and Mr. G. H. Cuthill, of Kowloon Dock.

MONDAY,

CHINA WAR.

THE WEEK-END TELEGRAMS.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1927.

THE TATE GALLERY.

SIR JOSEPH DUVEEN'S LATEST OFFER, Peking, Sept. 3. Foreign messages state that

London, Sept. 4. Cha Yu-pu is penetrating into Sir Joseph Duveen has offered Honan and that Feng Yu-hsiang's to complete the modern foreign troops are withdrawing to Kai- gallery at Millbank, which was feng.

Sun Chuan-fang has returned opened Inst year by H.M. the King situation with the Chill and Shafia offer has been accepted by the to Pengpu in order to discuss the by building an additional gallery for modern foreign sculpture.

tung Generals.

It is believed that Sun Chuan- fang may next attack Hofel and Anhui, which is still reported to be in Nationalist hands, abandoning

attempts to cross the Yangtse for

the present.-Reuter,

Nationalists Concentrating

Shanghai, Sept. 3. Nationalist troops are concen-

Treasury and by the Trustees of the Tate Gallery and building will shortly be begun on a vacant site behind the present galleries.

TRAIN DERAILMENT."

DELIBERATE ATTEMPT AT

WRECKAGE.

Paris, Sept. 3. The Paris-Orleans Company an- pounce that none of the passengers in the train wrecked at Tours were injured-Reuter.

Trains Collide in U. S.

Princeton, Indiana, Sept. 4. Four passengers were killed and 12 injured in a railway accident near here when a westbound South- ern Railway passenger train_col lided with a coal train-Reuber's

King opened last year was erected American Service.

The building which H.M. the

through the generosity of Sir Joseph Duveen. It consists of

four large galleries on the main | LEAGUE "AND HEALTH. floor, three being devoted to mo- Those attending included Mr.

dorn foreign works and one to and Mrs. T. Grimshaw, Taikoo Dock, Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Hyndman,trating at Chinklang and are ready works by Sargent, and five base-

to cross the Yangtsze.

ment galleries particularly suit- Troops from Hankow are movable for watercolour and other ing down to Nanking. So far only drawings. five divisions have arrived.-Wah Kia Yat Po..

Woosung Forts Shelled.

Shanghai, Sept. 4. According to Chineso reports, a Northorn noroplane this afternoon at

Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lindsay; Mr. and Mrs. S. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Saint, (Naval Dockyard), Mr. J. Crookdake, Mr. J. McLead, Mr. A. M. Simpson, Mr. D. S. Neilson, Mr. J. C. Brown, Mr. D. Keith, Mr. W. Forsyth, Mr. C. Atkinson, Mr. J. Puncheon, Mr. R. Goodman, Mr. H.G. Cooper, Mr. E. L. Hosie, Mr. J. O. McLagompted to demolish the Kiangnan

Arsenal, dropping four bombs, gan, Mr. R. Lapsley, Mr. J. Hyde, Two fell in the Whampoo, one in Mr. J. McCubbin, Mr. J. Michell, the compound of a soap factory Mr. Baker, Mr. Bunje, Mr. C. R. and the fourth in the arsenal Logan, Mr. A.T. Hamilton, Mr. J. yard. Опо workman Was in- McIntyre, Mr. W. Hedley, Mr. WJ.jured, but not seriously, and other- Bickford, (Naval Yard).

wise there Was no damage. Work, however, was suspended in the Arsenal.

Mr. M. Drummond, Mr. W. Weir, and Mr. W. Wotherspoon (Taikoo Dock).

The Wreaths.

A gallery for modern foreign sculpture was needed to complete the modern foreign gallery and it Is this Sir Joseph Duveen will now provide. British Wirless.

NON-AGGRESSION.

SUGGESTION TO OUTLAW WAR COMES FROM POLAND,

Paris, Sept. 4. Despite the recent denial of one of the Polish representatives at Four Northern gunboate this after Geneva of the rumour that Poland noon shelled the Woosung Fort, will propose a general pact of non- which replied to the fire, about twenty aggression at the League meeting sholls being oxchanged altogether.at Geneva, "Pertinax" declares The firing caused no damage, and the that the project has already been gunboats steamed away-Reuter. communicated to the British and

Shanghai, Sept. 3 French Governments.

Amongst the many wreaths sent were those from the following Sorrowing Husband, Mother and Sisters, Mr. and Mrs: W. J. Rattey,

An attack on the Woosung forts Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bickford, Mr. was made this afternoon by three and Mrs. J.P. Robinson, Mr. and Northern cruisers. About twenty Mrs. J. Colin Owen, Mr. and Mrs. | rounds were fired by each side. No

Mr. MacMurray Going Home to Report.

Poland will suggest the drawing up of a declaration outlawing war. Signature to the declaration will he voluntary but any Power sign-

with co-signatories. No special guarantees are mentioned.

G. Gerrard, Mr. and Mrs. G. Mor-hits were observed and the cruisers re-ing will be bound to keep peace rison, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. C. Rob- tired.--Naval Wireless... son, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ramsay and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. Golden-

Washington, Sept. 4. berg, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Ramsay,

Pros. Coolidge expects Mr. Mac Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Vellenger, Mr. Murray, the Minister to China, short- and Mrs. C. R. Logan, Mr. and to return to the United States Mrs. C. E. Millard, Mr. and Mrs. J.

to report on Chinese conditions. Crookdake. Mr. and Mrs. F.. A-Reuter's American Service. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. D. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. T. Grimshaw, Mr. and Mre: J.D. Provan, Mr. and Mrs. Kempton. Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Bliss, Bahs, Elleen and Sonnie.

SOVIET MANIFESTO.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hansen and i Marjorie, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson | ENERCETIC PROTEST BY THE Brown, Mr. and Mrs. M. Robson

FRENCH GOVERNMENT. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brown, Mr. and-

Paris, Sept. 3. Mrs. W. Hedley. Mr. and Mrs. A. The papers announce that, replying N. Mackenze, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. to an energetic protest on behalf Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mudie, of the French Government against Mr. and Mrs. G. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. V. Chittenden, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tully, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Good man, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Bunje, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Lyal, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Garraway, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.

Saint.

The French Cabinet examined the proposal on Friday and M. Bri- and discussed it yesterday with Herr Stresemann, who did not condemn the idea. It is there fore considered probable that M. Briand will adopt the proposal and submit it in his own name.-- Renter.

THE SALE OF POPPIES.

RECORD SUM COLLECTED LAST YEAR.

London, Sept. 4. Lord Haig states that the record Comdr. Rakowski, he having signed sum of £435,000 was collected by a manifesto of the Third Inter-the sale of poppies on the one day national urging the Soviet to revert to a policy of world revolution, M. Chichorin has disavowed the Ambas antior. Harus.

A Second Protest.

Paris, Sept. 4.

last year.

SOLDIERS CHARGED,

an

WORK COMMENDED BY ! JAPANESE.-

Geneva, Sept. 4.

At a meeting of the Council of the League, Mr. Adatci, of Japan, read a report of a meeting of hy giene experts regarding the protec tion of infants, expressing warm appreciation of the League's health acction and urging that meetings should be held in connexion with it outside Europe.

Mr. Chamberlain said everyone realised that the League must be- come a reality in the eyes of the people outside Europe, but meetings of the League Council outside Europe, for example in America or Japan, might be difficult.

The Council adjourned after adopting a report of the Interna tional Conference on the establish- ment of an international relief union-Reuter.

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THE CHANNEL.

TWIN SISTERS ATTEMPT TO

- SWIM ACROSS.

Boulogne, Sept. 3. The thirteen-year old American twins, Phyllis and Bernice Ziten- feld have started a Channel swim escorted by two tugs in order that if one gives up the other is enabled to continue.-Reuter.

from Cap Grisnez. The sisters are

Another Woman.

A third woman Channel aspirant, Mrs. Marriott, has started from Cap Grisnez.--Router.

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All Give up Later.

The Zilenfeld twins and Jane Darwin have given up their Chan- nel attempts.--Reuter.

FACTORY DISASTER.

THIRTEEN DEATHS IN EXPLOSION.

Thirteen

TO VISIT ROME.

Since Poppy Day was instituted in 1921 £1,749,000 has been raised on behalf ex-service men's chari-

Buenos Aires, Sept. 3. ties. Last year's figure was

were killed and two increase of £40,000 on the previous seriously injured, mostly young The recent action of M. Rakow-year, and the public response has women and children in the explo- Kinnaird, Mr. and Mra. L. A. ski, Soviet Ambassador to Paris, steadily grown annually. Ad- sion-Reuter's American Service.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Abraham. Mr. in signing a manifesto promising ministrative expenses are under and Mrs. W. Wotherspoon, Mr. and Russian support to a world revolu- five per cent. British Wireless, Mrs. D. F. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Lion led the French Government to D. J. Purves, Mr. and Mra. W. For protest to M. Chicherin who re- syth and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. plied that Rakowski signed the H. Large, Mr. and Mrs. G. Duncan, manifesto merely as a member of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Scott, Mr. and the Russian Communist Party and Mrs. W. N. Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. not as Soviet Ambassador. P. Oliver and Mary, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lyon and family, Mr. and French Government which has Mrs. S. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. J.re-protested in the most forcible Hyde and family. Mr. and Mrs. II. manner with the result that Chi- Stainfield. Mr. and Mrs. B. Laps-cherin has written a letter to the ley, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hyndman French Ambassador to Moscow and family, Mr. and Mrs. N. Drum- very clearly disavowing the atti. mond and Nell, Mr. and Mrs. R. tude of Rakowski. Dixon and family, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Goodall, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. J. de Graça Ozorio, Mr. and Miss Far rell, Mrs. P. E. F. Stone, Mro.

The reply did not satisfy the

A section, of the French Press however continues to demand that Rakowski Igave France.—Reuter,

John Weir, Miss Elsa Robaon Bell, A. K. Henderson, G.. H. White and

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Miss A. Leon.

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In response to an invitation from the Governor of Rome, the Lord land of the Welch Regiment were Mayor of London and the Lady charged before Mr. W. Schofield Mayoress, with the Sheriffs and at the Kowloon Magistracy on their wives, will visit the Italian Saturday with common assault and capital at the end of this month.- with using insulting language to- British Wireless. wards the complainant, Miss A. were Soleman. The defendants the alleged to have met

com- plainant in Austin Road оп Friday night. The first defendant was stated to have slapped her.

After hearing the evidence his Worship convicted Wood of # technical assault and imposed a

MEXICO'S POLITICS.

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OBREGON TO STAND FOR PRESIDENCY. "Messrs. A. W. Hodges, G. S.. The Kowloon Dock Staff. The

Mexico City, Sept. 3. Graver, W. H. Owen, D. Keith, J. Dock Company Typists, Head fire of $1, while the second de- The Mexican labour party, at p Puncheon, H. Overy, A. Simpson, Office, Kowloon, Chinese Office fendant was found to have been convention unanimously endorsed ex- D. Puncheon, D. Neilson, A. B. H. Staff, Head Office, Kowloon Docks, the more prominent in insulting President Obregon's candidature for Castro, C. E. Stewart, E. L. Hosie, General Office Boys, Head Office, the complainant. He was fined the presidency.-Reuter's American E. A. dos Remedios, J. V. Gomes, Kowloon Docks, and Members

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Service. J. M. V. Remedios, J. D. Marques, Kowloon Cricket Club.

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