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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928.

LIGHT AEROPLANE GRAND TATTOO

SUCCESS.

BRITISH MACHINE MAKES A 5,000-MILE FLIGHT.

SPANIARD'S FEAT.

London, Sept. 7. Senhor Ogana, a Spanish officer on leave, accompanied by a Civi lian, arrived at Croydon thla week, after having made a 5,000 mile tour of Europe in a British light aeroplane-an Avro-Avian, fitted with a Cirrus Mark Two engine, in a little over a month.

SCENES:

HISTORIC EPISODE

RECALLED.

DEPICTING THE SURRENDER OF EDINBURGH CASTLE.

OBJECTS OF TATTO0.

BURIAL OF L.55 VICTIMS.

IMPRESSIVE SCENES MARK THE FUNERAL.

TRIBUTE TO SOVIET.

London, Sept. 7. There were impressive and moving scenes at laslar Cemetery, Portsmouth, to-day, when, with full naval honours, the remains of forty-two officers and men of the British submarine L.66, which was sunk in the Baltic nine years ago, were interred,

Esthonia.

One of the most, picturesque The machine, which is of the scones which will be witnessed at

takes Gun carriages and; motor lorries same typo as that in which the Grand Tattoo which Squadron Leader Hinkler flow to place at Sookumpoo on October 4, carried the coffins and wreaths,

livered,

the Guard" in the semi-final-epi--the widows, dathers and mothers Australia, was one of three de 6 and 6 will be the "Changing of and behind the principal mourners tives of the Navy, Army and Air Senkor Ogara flow along the sode "The Surrender of Edinburgh of the victims were representa- Mediterranian coast to Italy, Castle 1089." Salonika and Constantinople, then When the Lowland and English Force and the Naval Attaches of Peru, Japan and etruck north-easterward through troops, led by General Hugh MacFrance, Italy, the United States,

kay, appear before the Castle Argentina, Prague, flew through Berlin and gates, they will be received, by the

The Admiralty representative finally made his way to London Highland Quarter-Guard of the

Castle with the usual formal com-was Vice-Admiral Haggard, the vin Amsterdam.

Throughout the tour the airmen pliments, but the gates will remain Fourth Sea Lord. There were over 1,000 officers and men in the had no mechanical trouble, and ominously closed.

Thereupon, General Hugh Mac- procession. Owing to the Im- their effort has aroused consider- able interest in Spanish air kay will, in atentorian tones, in the possibility of the individuals being circles. They both speak very name of King William and Queen identified, no name was engraved highly of British workmanship Mary, call upon the Governor of on any one of the coffins. and design, and either to-day or the Castle, the Duke of Gordon, to-morrow they will leave Croydon to surrender the fortress.

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OPIUM SMUGGLERS' INGENUITY.

DRUG CLEVERLY HIDDEN BY ARRESTED MEN.

Arrests made yesterday by mem- bers of the Itevenue and Police Departments reveal the extreme Ingenuity which is now being em ployed by opium smugglers.

Handing Keys Over.

Captain Dearing, of the mer- chant steamer Truro, which brought the bodies from Kronstadt to "Reval, in an Injórview The Gates will then be thrown

with B Press ropresentativo open and the Duke of Gordon will speaks highly of the attitude emerge. He will be received with lof tha Ruasfon authorities "General Salute by the Low-In connexion with the embarkation landers and will formally hand of the bodies. He says:-"Not | over the keys of Edinburgh Castle though the bodies had been those to, General Mackay. The troops of their own honoured dead, could will then enter through the gates the Russians have paid them and climb the steep slope to the greater honour and courtesy. It battlements.

was a remarkable tribute to the When the last mun kas passed tradition of the sea in 'honouring into the Castle, the ceremony of the gallant dead, Irrespective of "Changing the Guard" will be

the nation to which they belong." enacted in the arena before the British Wireless. Castle Gates. It will be much the

On the Iloi On Wharf a Chinese, who had every appearance of being a prosperous business man, being clad in silk clothing, was arrested for possession of seventy taels of raw opium. The drug was ski-multitude of onlookers. fully padded inside a silk walscoat. Ordinarily a padded garment is

same ceremony as may be seen! daily at the changing of the Royal Ganrd at St. James' Palace, Lon- don which always attracts such a

Picturesque Drees.

stuffed with cotton, but in this The drill used in changing instance the man made a walscoat guard in 1689 does not differ ma-

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of waterproof paper which he pad-terially from the similar ceremon

Shameen, Sept, G. ded with raw eplum. Over this in drill of to-day, but the scene

A very enjoyable little recopilon was a layer of silk, and unless one will gain in picturesqueness by the was arranged in the Canton Club took particular pain to examine the fact that both guards will be in Theatre yesterday evening by the waiscoat, it would be difficult to the authentic full dress of the men of the Canton Detachment of notice the difference in the "feel"

period.

the King's Own Scottish Borderers. of an ordinary waiscoat and thre opium-filled one.

At the Chiu On Wharf, Revenue Officers seized a man who had on him nineteen taels of prepared oplum concealed on various parts of his body.

The Duke of Gordon's guard The proceedings opened with a will be impereonated by members Whist Drive, the first pribe for of the Scottish Company, Hong-Indies going to Miss Marguerite kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Hogg, and for men to Privatos while the Lowland Guard will be Nelson and Martin (led). furnished by the 25th Foot. (The

The whist drive was followed by King's Own Scottish Borderers). The uniform worn by, the latter an informal stance which, in spite guard is copied exactly from a of the great heat, was much en- coloured print of the period in the Joyed by all present. During the dancing there were some exhibition possession of the Regiment.

"Foursome and "Eightsome" Reals which were very well done Indeed, During the afternoon there was

Tattoo Objects.

At How Wo Street, an astute Chinese constable effected the arrest of a man who was carrying on fewer than 108 taels of opium. The arrested man had the ap- pearance of a coolle and the opium was so done up that it had the appearance of a suck of old cloth-

It is interesting to note that the ing. To give this Impression, the proceeds of the Grand Tattoo are a football match, England v. Scot "coolfe" was carrying the bundle to be shared by Military charities land. This resulted in a draw of in a careless sort of way and rags of the units taking part and by two goals each. F. E. W. Lammert were sticking out from it. Per the Naval and Military Y.M.G.A. and J. Linaker scored for England haps it was the manner in which

Perhaps it is not generally and Private Dougherty both goals the bundle was carried that roused known that military units have for Scotland. the constablo's suspicion and led charitable funds to which serving to the discovery of the contents. members of the units subscribe.

A boy of eleven was stopped in The funds thus accumulated are known. The present centre in the Eastern Street yesterday and, when used in settling men in civil life City hall has displaced the old searched, was found to be carry when their Army service is com-"Cheer O" and "The Better. "Ole" ing twenty taels of prepared opium,pleted and also in the care of centres inaugurated last year when concealed in a girdle. He will be their dependents. The famous additional troops arrived in Hong. charged in due course.

Aldershot Tattoo was originated kong. Funds for the early work with the object of augmenting were generously provided by local the Y.M.C.A. Na- these funds which are never suf- residents and

EX-KAISER'S FARMS

RESTORED.

SOUTH AFRICA HANDS BACK PROPERTIES.

IMPORTANT DECISION.

Windhoek, Bopt. 7.

The ex-Kaisar's application to recover certain properties confi cated in 1920 by the Union Ge vernment has succeeded..

The property consists of only two ferms of comparatively little

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Judge Grindley Ferris, in giving Judgment, held that Soction 257 of the Treaty of Versailles, by virtue of which the property was confis- cated, only referred to actual rul- Ing sovereigna.

The Government was therefore Interdicted from disposing of the. property, and the Registrar of Deeds has been ordered to re- store the name of the Royal House as the owners of the farmi Router

Yesterday's return of notifiable disonses shows three cases of typhoid and one of small-pox. All were Chinese.

cient to meet all calls on them. tional Ifeadquarters, but for the The work of the Naval and Mill-continuance of the work funds are tary Y.M.C.A. in Hongkong is well necessary.

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