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A

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HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1931.

MOTOR SMASH TRAGEDY.

YOUNG ARCHITECT

KILLED.

MR. K. K. STAPLE OF

PALMER & TURNER.

DASH TO CAPE ENDS IN FAILURE.

MOLLISON MAKES A FORCED LANDING.

Cairo, Nov. 15. Mr. J. A. Mollison made a forced loading in a maize field near Minia, in Upper Egypt, last night,

The airman is safe, but his

machine is reported to be wrecked.

The damage to Mollison's plans A terrible motor accident oc-has forced him to abandon his curred yesterday on the island attempt on a London-Capetown road between Deep, Water and record. Repulse Bays.

Mr. K. K. Staple, of Mckers. Palmer & Turner, the architects, was severely injured and auc. cumbed before medical aid could reach him.

The tragedy accurred at about 11 m. when motorists, on their | Sunday outing, came upon the car,

He crossed the coastline at El Soloum, and passed over Cairo at 4 p.m. yesterday, following the Nile southward en route to Khar- toum,

The petrol pump of his reserve tank brake, and he was forced to land near Minis, 160 miles from Cairo. He was thrown out by the force of the impact: and the top of the plane were smashed, putting a continuation night out of the question..

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the

GENUINE YORK HAMS

a four-seater touring Armstrong-muchine's propeller, rudder and Siddeley, No. 193, a few hundred yards on the Deep Water Bay Bido

of the island Road's junction with the Repulse Bay Road. The

fetched car had

violently up against a tree off the outer alde of the road, and Mr. Staple was lying unconscious and bleeding badly, while his companion, his sister-in-law, was attending him. In the distressed state in which the Indy, Miss Isabella Warbrick, was, it was difficult to obtain a clear account of what had hap (pened, but apparently the car and

got out of control.

The rond where the mishap curred turns sharply and rises, and the impact with the tree must have been terrific, for the ear was firmaly Jammed into it, the driving wheel was shattered and the wind screen glass scattered in all direc- tions, 4 wheel of the car was adrift,

Lady Driving.

of

Mollison has decided to have his machine repaired at Cairo, and to return to England by air-Reuter,

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The foreign community at GOVERNMENT HOUSE. Great War. Lady Peel was also pre- Hin Excellency the Governor and Swatow has suffered a heavy loss

sent.

Lady Prel, accompanied by Mr. A. E. His Excellency the Governor at Wood (A.S.G.A.) visited the Kwong in the death of Mr. Thomas Carr

tended the ceremony at the Chinese Wa Flospital and the To Kwong Girls' Ramsey, who passed away on

Wednesday, 11th November, 1931. War Memorial in the Botanical School in Kowloon. November 12 t the age of 71

His Excelleney the Governor and Gardens, and lafd a wreath on the His Excellency the Governor pre- years. Mr. Ramsey is survived by Lady Pool attended the service held Heinurial in honour of these Chinese, sidel at a meeting of the Univeralty his wife, Mrs. Ella M. Ramsey, for at St. John's Cathedral to corn who fell for the Allled Cause during Council.

the Great War. whom deep sympathy will be felt memarate Armistice Day.

Thursday, 12th November. in her bereavement.

Mr. Ramsey was in business as merchant in Swatow, where he and resided for many years, He was held in great respect both in Swntow and Hongkong and hin Passing will cause deep regret in

bath pinces.

Among the well-known concerns. which his firm represents are the Kailan Mining Administration, the North China Insurance Co.. tad, the North British Mercantile insurance Co., the Insurance Ollies of Australia, ltd, the Sun Insur

Mr. Staple was; it is understood, teaching his sister-in-law to drive. and the latter was at the wheel. The car was proceeding from Deep Water Bay towards Repulse Bay, Whether a wheel came off or in what other manour she lost con- trol is unknown, but the car ap- parently swerved across the road, and but for the trees might have your down the diff into the har-ance Office Ltd., the Eagle Star bour. As it was, Mr. Staple seems and Eritish Dominions Insurance to have been flung into the wind- Co., Ltd., the Assurance Franco- screen, He was cut about the Asiatique, L'Urbaine Insurance face and had a deep wound in his Co., and the Cheong Yue S.S. Co.,

Ltd. throat, apparently severing a blood vessel.

Miss Warbrick, who is a nurse

at the Peak Hospital, managed to vice with the Canadian Ex- get Mr. Staple out of the ear, and very quickly other cars began to arrive to find her greatly distressed. Buffering from cutk herself and frantically endeavouring to check

his bleeding.

editionary Forces in France. Discharged in 1919, he joined the Hongkong Government Service in the same year as a second class

overseer. He arrived in the Colony in September of that year. In 1922, he was appointed a First Class Overacer, and in 1923, be was appointed to the Architectural Office. He left the Government service in 1925, and later joined

Among the first to arrive on the scene were Mr. Thomas, of the Secretariat for Chinese Afairs. Mr. W. G. Bree, of the Asiatic Mr. Petroleum Company, and Hewitt. The nearest house is Mr. Messrs. Palmer and Turner. He G. P. Lammert's ("Over Bays") | recently supervised the construc- and people came down from there tion of the War Memorial Hos to help. police officer from pital Pokfulam was also quickly on the scene.

Mr. Staple was a married man and lived with his wife and two fee was obtained to staunch Mr. children at Beaemar Terrace, Staple's bleeding and messengers | North Point. The greatest were sent to Repulse Bay and to sympathy will he felt for them in Deep Water Bay for restorativer, their great bereavement.

at o'clock this afternoon.

an amublance and 14 doctor, The funeral in to take place A motor ambulance 14. ዚ sent aut from Central, und Mr. Staple's bleeding having apparent. ly stopped, it was considered bet ter pol to move him in a car, lest the bleedling retur, but to wait for the ambulance. He did not re- cover consciousness, and when the ambulance arrived, he was

nounced dead.

pro-

Miss Warbrick Injured. Miss Warbrick herself received: acrious injuries to her chest through being cut by the flying Kiss, She was later taken to hospital.

Mr. Kenneth Kingsley Staple. born in 1889, saw active war ser-A

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His Excellency The Governor tended the ceremony at the Cenotaph, sided during which he laid a wreath in Council. honour of those who fell during the Friday, 13th. November.

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