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OBITUARY.

"MAGICIAN" WHO MADE A SUCCESS OF FAILERE.

Mr. Hoven, the

famous American mock magician,

died at St. Chad's Hospital, Birmingham, after & fortnight's

illness.

Mr. Van Hoven's rise from mediocrity to the position of one of the highest-paid music-hall performers in England Americh was quite as humorous АЯ any of his burlesque per- formances.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1929.

ROBBERS KILLED.

PROMPT POLICE ACTION IN SHANGHAI.

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Two Chinese were shot and

othry wounded us an affray with

police from Yunglazepon Station during one of the most daring arm ed robberies seen in Shanghai`for many a day. At about 7.30 p.m. ou Friday seven men raided the house of Mr. K. Kuroda, a diree ortor of the Shanghai Cotton Manu

facturing Co., in Ningkuo Road. The house stands with another, to which it in jolhed by a speaking tube, in dh isolated section, and the robbers proceeded about their four remained outside on guard, business systematically. While three entered the house by a ruse. They tore down the telephones in the house immediately, but they did not know of the epeaking tube connected with the next house. Mrs. Kuroda, spoke through the tube to the next house, who re- leased a burglar alarm connected with Yangiszępoo Station and Brought police on the scone be- fore the robbers could escape.

"He started on the stage on a amall circuit in the United States As a conjurer," an intimate friend told The Evening News. "But as conjurer he was simply awful. Everywhere he went people used to laugh at him and treat him as a joke, for he could not do the most elementary trick success fully.

Winning the Laughs. "He muddled so much, indeed, that he became almost famous as the worst conjurer in America, and won more laughs than many comedians.

DEATH PRESUMED.

LT, COMMR. MACDONALD'S ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Last month. Mr. Justice Hi

gave leave to swear the death of

Lieutenant-Commander Henry

Crawford Macdonald, D.S.C., late of Queen's-gate, who was

lost during an Atlantic light last year, as having occurred on or since October 18, 1928.

Mr. Noel Middleton, who made the application on behalf of the widow of Lieutenant-Commander: Macdonald, said that the latter 1928, for Newfoundland-whore left England on September 20, he arrived on September 26, 1928.

to attempt a flight from there to England in a Moth aeroplane. At about 4.51 p.m. Greenwich mean time 011 October 17 be began his flight for Engi land from Harbour Grace, St. John's. The Moth neroplane con- tained about 100 gallons of petrol,

Follce Quickly on Scène. which would enable the machine "Io was such a good-humourod fellow, however, that instead of A detachment of pulles under to remain in the air for about 30 becoming down-hearted by his Det Set Tilton and Sgt. Willcox hours. It was not fitted with lack of dexterity as a confurer, he arrived very shortly from Yang-floats and would sink within a devoloped the idea of making him-zepon Station. They found, the few hours if it came down in the self a really funny conjurer. robbers inside the house, the four sen,. The aoroplane was sighted

"Immediately his act became a men who had been left on guard success, and when I first saw him outside having apparently run in New York he was getting about away as soon as the police motor £45 a week. In 1914 induced car drew up. Not knowing how him to come to England, and he many nien were inside the building, was not here very long before he the police sent back to Yangtaze- was getting £150 and £200 a week. pad Station for reinforcements and

"Then he became known a

the eastern reserve unit under Ma- The Man who Made Ice Famous" for Rourne and Sup. Fairbair By his will, dated July 21, 1925, and The Ice-Man' because in one

were soon on the scene. In the his wife was appointed sole exocu- meantime the police had surround-trix and beneficiary, conditionally

on her surviving him one calen-,

act he made three little boys hold lumps of ice in their hands while be tried vainly to perform some trick with a bird. The trick never came off successfully, and the unfortunate boys were kept stand ing for a terrible length of time holding, with blue hands, rapidly melting lumps of ice.

"Never did this ridiculous act fail to keep audiences in shrieks of laughter./

What He Told the Audience. "Fow men can have turned failure into Buch tremendous success as Van Hoven,

"Another thing he did that made him so popular In England was that of starting to do a trick, fumbling it badly, then throwing down his 'prope in feigned dis gust, and remarking casually to the audience:

Waal, it's not much of a trick anyhow, Some of you might like see it, but I'm not goin' to worry my young life trying to do the darn thing.*

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"With all his fun Van Hoven was one of the kindest men in the world. He treated those little boys he used to take about with him with every kindness. He made them open a banking account with money that he gave them, and he saw to it that they anved and that the accounts grew stendily."

ed the house.

from the steamer Hardenberg about midnight of October 17-18 about 600 miles out from New- foundland. Since then no com munications had been received from Lleutenant-Commander Mac. donald by his wife or any rola- tive or friend.

While there were still only a dar month. His own estate was few men on the scene, however, not very large, but he had sub- one of the robbers came out of stantial interests in the estates the front door, bearing nome loot of his late father and mother. and two shot-guns. Ile was im- His life was insured by one as mediately challenged by, Det. Sgt:urance company for £3,000 and Tilton, and on his refusal to stop by another for a smaller sum. was shot by a Japanese constable Neitlier company raised any ob- with the detective. He fell but | jection to this application. gol up and ran towards a creek borttering the shrubbery in the compound of the house. He fell into the creek but managed to get up the other side, where several more shots were fred at him. The Japanese constable pursued him but in the darkness the man was lost. Some of the loot he wa carrying was, however, recovered.

As soon as reinforcements ar rived police entered and searched the building. From the lights and movements observed in the dif- ferent rooms from outside, they Had reason to believe that there were a number of men in the rob bury. Inside, however, they found only two. Ons of these dashed out of a room at the searchers and was immediately shot both by pistol and Thomson machine gun.

Third Man Dropped.

A quick search of the whole house, failed to reveal the other man and it was only when the THE HEALTH RETURN.police went a second time over

SMALL-POX STILL FIGURES PROMINENTLY,

the building that they discovered him hiding behind some curtains in an attic. When discovered he made as if to rush at the police and was immediately dropped by pistol and machine gun fire. The Fifty-four cases of small-pox Innt of the robbers, consisting of were notified during the week end-gold watches, cigarette cases ing February 23 while there were jewellery, etc., was mostly recover- 59 deaths from the disease dured. It could not be ascertained ing the same period. There were in the confusion last night just 50 Chinese cases, two British, one how much was missing. of which was imported, and one each Filipino and Japanese. Cases from Kowloon totalled 27 und from Victorin 25, the other two being from Shaukiwan and

Aberdeen respectively.

Police believe the raid to have been the work of a Kompo gang

who arrived in Shanghai just be fore the Chinese New Year with the intention of making one big coup and then getting away. It is There were two deaths from supposed that the raid on Mr. diphtheria out of the four Chinese Kuroda's house was their big casca reported, while three cases coup, in which case it has been a notified. failure. Det. Suh. Inspr. Telfer of enteric fever were The return for the week also is following up the gang. shows two futal cases of influenza which is not a notifiable disease,

The health return for the 24 hours ending February 25 shows 15 further cases of small-pox, aeven from Victoria, six from Kowlook and two from Shauld-

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Counsel submitted that there was no doubt that that extremely hazardous enterprise had met with disaster.

ills Lordship granted leave as stated above.

Lt. Commr. Macdonald was born in Ilongkong.

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London, Jan. 29. A test was carried out yesterday at the London offices of the Enatorn Extension Company of the efficiency of the new direct cable survico to Singapore, which makes it possible to send messages a distance of 10,521 miles in 1.28cc.

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The original intention had hon for greetings to be oxchanged bo tween the present Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Com- missioner of Malaya, Sir Hugh Clifford, and Sir Frank Swattenham, wlio became the first High Commis- ioner on the establishment of the Federation. Owing, however, to the fast that Sir Hugh Clifford was on his way to Kuala Lumpur by sen, the message was received and ac- knowledged by the Deputy-Governor. Acknowledgment of Bir Frank Swettenham's message was receiv- ad within a few seconds, and the reply came through a minute later.

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