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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19,- 1928.

PIRATES MURDER FUNERAL OF THE

SMALL GIRL.

ANOTHER DASTARDLY CRIME

IN LOCAL WATERS. ***

| FISHERMAN ATTACKED

WYB the

Another piracy attended by terribly trngle resulta reported yesterday at Cheung Chau police station by Ho Kam IIing, (48) the master of a licensed fishing junk.

KING'S AUNT.

MOTHER OF MURDERED CZAR OF RUSSIA.

LIFE WHICH WAS FULL OF TRAGEDY.

HONGKONG TRIBUTE.

DISPUTE OVER THE FALKLANDS.

'ARGENTINE- ASSERTS CLAIM TO ISLANDS.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Now York, Oct, 18 The disputed ownership of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Orkneys, which; formed the aubject of correspon- The Junk was lying at anchor

dence exchanged last year be- off 'Puí 0, Lantau Island, nt 9.80

tween the British and Argentino pm. on Wednesday, the master The funeral of the late ex-Em- Governments, is dealt with in a and crew being fast asleep, when picas Marle of Itussis, who died on message from the Buenos Aires shots fired from another junk Saturday last at Copenhagen at the correspondent of the New York nearby were heard. Within a few age of 81 years, takes place to-day Times.

According to the correspondent, minutes of the firing another fish-and to mark the event flags at Gov- ing junk of about 200 piculs ernment buildings and on men-of-Britain protested against the eroc- capacity came alongside and three war in Hongkong are flying, at half. tion of an Argentinian wireless men boarded, one in possession of mast..

meteoralglent station In South a rifle. Three others remained The late'ex-Empress was former Georgin, to which the Argentina on the pirate cmft.

ly Princess Dagmar of Denmark Government" replied The pirates bont, which carried and was the mother of the late ownership of the islands and ex- a black sail, took the fishing boat Czar Nicholas 11 who was murder plaining its inability to take active ed during the Russian Revolution. control of the Falklands on ac- in tow. Meanwhile, the gang ran-She was also a sister of the late count of the British occupation. sacked their victim's craft, the pre-Queen Alexandra and therefore, an cass occupying about half an hour, aunt of King George V. the master being forced by the pirates to the stern.

After half an hour, the pirates returned to their bont and abun doned their victim. The master then made a search and found his niece 11 years of age shot through the hend and her brother through the shoulder. The girl was dead but the boy only wounded. Money, jewellery and clothing to the extent of $160 was stolen.

Tragic Lite,

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asserting

The correspondent declarea that the publication of the correspon- dence has un Immediate bearing on Argentine's attitude towards the Kellogg Pact, which tacitly re- cognises the British right to pro- teet her possessions. — Reuter's American Service,

Tragedy stalked through the life of Dowager Empress Marle of Rus- sia, marking it from youth with a succession of sorrowful experiences,

Wife of Emperor Alexander Ill The Falklands were sighted by and mother of the late Czar Nich- Davis in 1592 and renamed by olas, she not only lived through the Captain Strong after his friend, murder in 1918 of her son and bis Lord Falkland. They were de entire family six by the Bolsite-finitely occupied by Britain in viki, but saw her father-in-law, 1833. South Georgia and the Alexander II of Russio, asanssingt-

Sub-Inspector Lane, it is undered by the Nililists in 1881, and her South Orkneys are about 800 miles favourite brother. King George I south-east of the Falklands, of stood, has left for Cheung Chau to Greece, slain in the streets of Sa- which they are dependencies.) investigate the affair.

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lonica in 1913.

She also saw the death of her husband, Emperor Alexander III, in 1894, the dethronement and sub- sequent death of King Constantine of Greece, who was der nephew, the forced abdleation of Coustan- Line's son, King George II of Greece, the exile of Kaiser Wil- helm of Germany, who was her nephew, and a host of other tragic events involving members of her family and relatives.

Shortly after the marriage of her non Nicholas to. Princess Alexandra of Hesse, at the death- bed of her husband. Alexander II, the Queen Mother saw 3,000 people trampled to death at the coronation festival to her son.

Slater of Queen Alexander.

AMERICAN LADY'S HONOURS.

DECORATED BY KING OF NORWAY.

AMUNDSEN ECHOES.

Oslo, Oct. 18. King Haakon of Norway gavo a luncheon to-day in honour of an American Indy, Miss Boyd, who placed the whaler "Hobby" at the disposal of the expedition organin- ed to search for Amundsen's plane. after the ill-fated explorer failed to reach his Arctic destination.

Miss Boyd personally participat- ed in the search, and King Haakon

The finding of the Marine Court of Enquiry, which sat yesterday to investigate the circumstances of the stranding of the s.s. Bornem in Haimun Bay on October 2, was delivered this morning, the master Captain Johannes Hendrik van den Berg, having been found In her late years, Marie suffered justified in secking shelter. The the loss of her favourite sister, text of the finding Is as follows: Queen Mother Alexandra of Great

"We find that the 3.8. Borneo Britain, and her cherished sister paid a warm tribute to her courage in-law, Queen Mother Olga of and generosity, afterwards con- left Hongkong on October 1st, Greece, Fate seemed to decree ferring upon her the Cross Che 1928, with a cargo of coal for that the venerable sovereign valler and the Cross of the Order Shanghai, the ship drawing 19 ft. forward and 19 ft. 11 inches aft, should leave the world's stage of St. Olaf.

only after all her family had pass- The Norwegian Prime Minister, "The weather was rough with Led away.

the United States Minister to Oslo, heavy sea running and strong

Marie Sophie-Frederica-Dagmar, and the Norwegian airmen who wind between N.N.E. and N.E. 80

which was the full name of the also assisted in the search were on 2nd inst, and' after passing Dowager Enpresa, was born in among the guests at the luncheon. Breaker Point, the Master decided Denmark, November 26, 1847. She By a coincidence, new evidenco that there was no alternative but to take shelter. He proceeded to was the daughter of King Chris-of the disaster met by Amundsen Han IX and Queen Louise of Den- and Gullbaud was brought to Nor- Haimun Bay at about 2.30 p.m. mark, who were known as "the way to-day. with this object, being unablò to

A petrol tank, believed to have proceed further in the prevailing unclo and aunt of all Europe," be- conditions. The master stated cause of their numerous relation belonged to the French aeroplane that he was well acquainted with ships with the sovereigns of almost in which Captain Amundsen lost his life, Was taken into Valder- the anchorage having anchored all other European countries. there on previous occasiona in

When only seventeen years old, sund by a Norwegian fishing boat. ships drawing 20 feet,

Princess Marie became betrothed The tank was somewhat dented to Prince Nicholas of Russla, first and still held thirty litras zon of Czur Alexander II, who

Two nimoat illegible Unes In abolished Russian serfdom. It was then her sorrows began. Her 20x1" being decipherable, which pencil were inscribed, only "Accle nhanced bridegroom, Nicholas,

is Interpreted to mean "Accident," by the position ула forced

petrol.

"On approaching the anchorage on a northerly course, speed was reduced and the lead was in use, The anchor was eventually let go in 4% fathoms at 2.40 p.m., with died and upon his deathbed he x followed Haimun Point bearing 090 degrees and the West Point hearing pressed a wish that Marie might when the machine 000 degrees. Cable was veered to marry his brother, Alexander. 75 fathom. In this position there Married Husband's Brother. was some swell with a smooth sea.

of

down. Reuter.

A subsequent examination of the pencil writing on the tank shows that that it was probably not connected with the accident to Amundsen's neroplane but that it relates to original instructions for mounting the tank on the machine.)

Reuter.

:

"The ship's head awung to star- Much against her wishes, the board to E.N.E. when the mate young princess married Alexander reported that he had felt a bump on November 9, 1866, as she admit aft and subsequently, No. 4 ballast ted herself, not because of love tabk was found to be hole, for him, but for political and Soandings all round the ship then diplomatic reasons." The Russian ahowed 4% fathoms and the post-alatesmen of that period wanted tion of the ship was verified. At the Romanol dynasty allied to one 3.20 p.m., the anchor was weighed of the older rolgning families of

Shanghai, Oct. 18, and the ship proceeded for Europe. The couple ascended to It is understood that the Turkish Swatow,

the throne in 1881.

Government has appointed the "The Court is of the opinion In her youth the princess wit-acting Turkish Minister to Tokyo that the master was justified in nessed the dismemberment of her las the first Turkish Minister to seçking shelter in Haimun. Bay, native Denmark by the Gormans, China. despite the fact that it is not re- who seized the rich Schleswig- commended in the China Sea Pilot, Holstein territory. This embitter.

Vol. V, but that in the unavold-ad her so much that, in later years, mighty Constantine Pobedondstary, able use of a general chart ho as Empress of Russia, she openly who from 1887 to 1905 was the should have anchored further out." repudiated Germany, made a most powerful figure in Russia and strong alliance with France, and a firm believer in absolutism and forbade anybody to apenk in Ger- autocracy. CHINESE GOVERNMENT man at the Russian court on pen-

POSTS.

BE USED:

1

Shanghal, Oct. 19.

Czar was

The Queen-Mother mel with the alty of paying a fine of 100 francs, same polley on the part of her son I was during this perfed that, ac- Emperor Nicholas II, who more cording to hitherto unpublished and more fell under the influence historical documents, Russia mo- of the Czarina Alexandra, Alex- NO PERSONAL INFLUENCE TO 5ilized its troops and prepared to andra believed in the "divine attack Germany. Only Bismarck's right" of Kings, and insisted on intervention and shrewdness, these the "preservation of autocratic documents assert, saved Europe power, and the traditional tonera- and perhaps the whole world fortion of the ritual of the National 27 years from the Great War of Church, of which the

the titular, hoad, ............... 1914-18...

her son only by the fortuitous cir- cumstance that she was in Copen- hagen at the time of the assassina- tion of Emperor Nicholas and his family, in 1918. In spite of the It is also onderd that no official thing more than a secondary role evidence to the contrary, she re- is to draw salaries or expenses for in the affairs of the state-of her fused to believe they had really offices hold concurrently with other | adopted country. In all her efforts been put to death. She belioved posts. Subordinate officers are to secure a more enlightened and the royal family had been held strictly prohibited from holding | nrogressive” regime, based upon captive by the Bolshévikl and that more than one post in the Govern-democratic forma, eho met with the Czar would, one day turn up Iment-Nam Chung Pao.

unyielding resistance from the in Russia to resume his rulership.

A Mandate has been issued by the Nationalist Government to the effect that no-one is allowed to use his personal influence to recom mond candidates for official posts, Those who violate this rulo are to be subject to severe punishment,

Secondary Role. Empress Marly was prevented by Alexander III from paying any

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