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RUSSIAN JUBILEE.

SEVENTY-FIFTH

ANNIVERSARY OF GEN.

HORVATH

AU TAU WOMAN MURDERED

RUTHLESS ROBBERY BY ARMED MEN

OBITUARY

FUNERAL OF YOUNG. LADY MISSIONARY

The funeral of Miss Margaret To-day is the seventy-five year An armed robbery attended by Schlag, who was fatally burned at Jubilee of General D. L. Horvath, the murder of a Chinese wonian, Cheung-chau on Friday, took place the head of Russian emigration and the wounding of a man, took at the Protestant Cemetery at Valley, 031 Saturday in the Far East.

place in the Au Tau district of the Happy

afternoon, tho ocension affor- General D. L. Horvath was born | New Territories, early yesterday In Itussin on August 7, 1858. morning. Three

ding opportunity for a large men who are AB a Sub-Lieutenant of the "wanted" for the murder, have dis-number of foreign missionarica other residenţa to pay Imperial Guard he took part in appeared from the district, and a and the War in 1877-1878. As Licut Polleo hunt in which all the main-thoir Inst respects to the de- Amongst those enant of the Imperial Engineer's land Stations participated, was censed lady, battalion he was commissioned for continued throughout the day with- present were the German Consul. the construction of the Trans-out result.

Herr Gipperich, Rov. F. Diehl Casplan Railway. In 1887 he was The murdered woman, Lau Fa. (Superintendent of the Rhenish in charge of the section In was aged 49. She lived with her Mission), Rev. W. Kompgen, Rey, Samarkand of the same Railway, husband, Chan Shing, who is a W, Grundmenn, Rev. Bogdan and until the end of the construction, farm labourer, on a sampan which other members of the Rhenish Wong Ol-tong and in 1895 was appointed on the night in question was moor- Mission; Rev. Manager of the 'Ussuri Railway. ed inshore near Sho Po Wai village. (Chinese Pastor of the Thenish In 1899 he was transferred as on the Kam Tin River.

Church, Bonham Road); Mr. C. Manager' to. the Middle Asiatic

About 4a.m., their 17-year-old Beltzer, Dr. Paul Diehl, M. D., Railway

daughter, Chan Tal, who slept in a Rev. Mr. Burkwell (Superintendent In 1902, by special request of matshed' clone by heard her of the British and Foreign Bible the Minister of Finances, S. J.father's shouts for assistance. She Society); other members of the Cheung was missionary colony at Witte, he was appointed Manager rushed to where the sampan

representatives of the Chinese Eastern Railway, tied up, and saw her father, who Chau;

of the ns, the most distinguished and had got out of the craft, being Basel and Berlin Missions; and able railway engineer. During struck to the ground by a man hold- Chinese members of the Rhenish 20 years of management of this ing a chopper.

Church, rollway General Horvath was able Lying face downwards

The Superintendent of on the to obtain the most prosperous mud, nearer to the sampan, was Rhenish Mission (Rev. F. Diehl) results with this railway, which the labourer's wife, the girl's step- performed the last services, and rendered the best services for the mother. She appeared to have al- the Rev., Wong Ol-tong, at the Russian Empire during the two ready succumbed to a murderous close, delivered a short peroration Wars the first in 1905 and the attack which had terminated by in Chinese in the life and work last during 1914-1917, During the time the younger woman reach of the deceased lady. the war of 1906 many timesed her side.

General Horvath, himself took The shouts uttered by the man charge of the locomotives of being attacked were also heard by military trains, and under the fire another villager, whose hut was on of the enemy removed the the other side of the main road wounded men and munitions.

skirting the shore. He rushed out on the road, blowing

A Police whistle.

The appreciation of the Chinese population and employees under his management was so great that the Chinese Government erected a statue to General Horvath in Harbin.

When the revolution started in Russia be directed the refugees in Harbin, and was one of the first who started the war against communism and bolshevism. Qn July 9, 1918, he proclaimed him self as Regent of the Far East, but when in West Siberia the Russian

pro- Government was claimed by Admiral Koltchak he at once relinquished his own duties as Regent.

His work for the glory of Russia was duly appreciated by the Imperial Government and he received many decorations for his distinguished service. His wish to liberate Russia from the Bolshevik government and his work were 80 great that the Grand Duke Nicholas Nichlaevitch of Russia appointed General! Horvath as his representative and the Head of the Russian Emigra- tion in the Far East.

tho

FRIEND OF RHODES.

Mauritius Secretary Dies In London.

Late

London, Aug. 6. The man wielding the chopper The death has occurred of Sir threw away his weapon, and, joined Graham John Bower, at the age by a second man, who until then │of 85.-Our Own Correspondent. had been busily searching the stern The late Sir Graham Bower, of the sampan, ran up the road and disappeared along the bank of the Kam Tin River in the direction of the shore at the other end,

who was born in Ireland in 1848, woe 4 son of Admiral James Paterson Bower. During the famous gold period in Australia, Shortly afterwards, n Police he visited New South Wales, and patrol consisting of two Indians, there married Maude · Laidley took up the chase, but the robbers Mitchell. He entered the Royal had had a good start.

Navy in 1861, serving continuous- Fiva ten-dollar notes, which the ly until 1880, when he was murdered woman is known to have pointed in South Africa Private had in her girdle, were missing Secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson from the body, as well as a gold, (a former Governor of Hongkong). ring worth $5.

He retired with the rank of Her husband, Chan Shing, auf Commander' in 1884, when he be- fered severely from a number of came Imperial Secretary to the chopper cuts." He is, however, be- lieved not to be in any great danger.Africa. In 1898 he was appointed High Commissioners for South

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Colonial Secretary at Mauritius, where he acted ая Officer Ad- the Government on ministering four occasions. He retired from his. position as Colonial Secretary in 1910,

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Sir Graham Bower was closely. At present General Horvath

associated with the famous Cecil lives with his family in Peking Jean Lucille Snyder, five-year- John Rhodes in the Jameson enjoying the respect and admira-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rald in 1896. tion of all who have had the Paul Snyder, of the American The late Sir Graham Bower-la- pleasure to meet him.-Contri-Presbyterian Mission, met her survived by n son, Commander buted,

death under trugle circumstances John G. Bower, D. S. O., who retir- on Lantan Peak on Friday after-ed from the Navy in 1931. He

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noon:

Bata

It appears that Jean and her was a submarine officer and was 7. playmate May Thompson, 6, had serving on the staff of the Bear- Admiral Commanding Submarines strayed from the mission camp to prior to his promotien. the pool, which is situated about 150 yards from the house, about 12.30 p.m. Jean seated herself on a rock and slipped over into the Warsaw, Aug. 5.

water, striking her head as she Agreements of far-reaching Im-fell. She sustained slight concus. portance to the peace of Eastern sion. Europe have been signed as the With great difficulty, her play- result of negotiations between the mate pulled her out, and growing Polish Government and represent-alarmed when Jean did not speak, atives of the Nazi Government at she ran to tell her father. Dantzig.

Tal O police station was imme- Questions regarding the utilisa-diately informed and No. 2 launch tion of the port of Dantzig are the was summoned to convey the body baals now laid down for the to Hongkong, arriving in the even- negotiations, which are aimed aling. The coffin was later trans- guaranteeing to Dantzig a share forred to the night boat for Can- of the maritime development of ton, where the funeral took place Poland..

yesterday.

The port of Dantzig has suffered Mr. and Mrs. Snyder roalde at severely in recent years through Pak Hok Tung, across the river! the competition from the neigh-from Canton. The greatest sym- bouring Polish port of Gydnin|pathy will be felt for them in

their bereavement,

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