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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY

NOVEMBER

BODY NEAR STREAM ROYAL FUNERAL

Chinese Whose Hands Were

Tied With Rope

Body of Queen Maud On Way to Norway

London, Nov. 23, The

body of Queen Maud, of Norway was conveyed on a horse drawn guncarriage from Marlborough House to Victoria Station this morn

journey to Norway. that

On the afternoon of August 28, a small Chinese boy was walking on the first stage of the funeral ing along a stream on a hill near Kowloon City when he came across the body of a man, whose hands and head were entwined in a rope. The boy ran to his village and informed his family of what he had seen, and they in turn notified the police.

At the Kowloon Magistracy yester-¡ day, the boy, Lo. Kam-cheung, 13, of Ngau Shi Wal

Cily, related to Me Kowloon AMERICAN DEFENCES Macfadyen how he came to find the

Q. A. A.

It had been intended. King George, King Haakon and the Crown Prince of Norway, with the King of the fellenes, the Prince Regent of Yugo-Slavia, the Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent should follow the guncarriage on foot, but owing to weather mourners taking part in the procession travell-

inclement

body of the man, whose name was Policy Ridiculed by Headed in cars.

Of Peace Group ・・

Lul Sam, 29. Assisted by a Jury comprising Mesars, G. Castle (Forc mon), Chon Boon-chew and Derek Nickson, Mr. Macfadyen was con- NO OVERSEAS THREATS ducting an inquiry into the circum- stances surrounding the death of Lui,

near, o

No troops were on the route, which was lined by a reverend crowd as the procession passed.

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The body was taken to Portsmouth and was to have been conveyed to Norway, aboard H.MS. Royal Oak Washington, Nov. 23. this afternoon, but the battleship was unable to leave until to-morrow be- While diplomalle moves indicate jcause of heavy seas, Opening the inquest, Mr. the United States displeasure with |

This morning a service in the Macfadyen told the Jury that the deconsed was found dead

Japan and Germany and Mr. Cordell chapel at Marlborough House, was SATURDAY

Warner Bros. stream close to the Kowloon City Hull is preparing to sail for Lima to attended by King Hankon, Prince Olot, King George, Queen Elizabeth rifle range on August 26, and it support Mr. Roosevelt's continental and members of the British Royal

Picturo. seemed that his hands and head had defence polley, the pacifist group family-Reuter. been bound with a rope, which alag lender, Senator Nye, ridicules Mr. had been wound around his neck. From the deceased's position, it would, Roosevelt's contention that co-operu

hemis- seem impossible that he had got into tive defence of the western It himself.

phere is necessary to avert aggres- slon. He says the talk and threats Continuing, Mr. Macfadyen re- from foreign sources are only a cover minded the Jury that it was their for those hell bent on a mad naval! duty, after hearing all the evidence, programme.

Senator Nye urges the perfection

to decide how the deccased had met his death, and if they decided that the man's death had been due to and extension of the Neutrality Act, violence not caused by himself, they instead of spending billions of dollars would have to bring in a verdict on defence, and the solving of national unrest thereby, by contribut- of murder..

ing to the maintenance of peace Det.-Inspector A. E. Carey was in through the enlargement of old age charge of the inquest for the police, pensions and adequate farm legisla and brought to Court two photo-lon.

graphs showing the dead man, with; The Senator says there is no likili- a rope round his hands and neck, hood of any Power or combination of as he had been found nenr the Powers attacking South America and stream. The rope was also brought the United States is prepared to repel to Court.

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Two. Forces Converging On Frontier

Simultaneously with the Japanese the attack of any Power or group of drive on the Canton-Kowloon Rail- Powers if such a fantastic idea is con-way from the Pearl River delta, con- siderable activity is evidenced east of colvable.-United Press.

the railway and along the East River west of the railway.

Chief Contribullons

Washington, Nov. 22.

East of the railway the Japanese have occupied Lungkong, ten miles and about 15 miles

that Latin America's chief from the

Well-informed Government officials east te "wong frontier at Sha-

Small Boy's Evidence Testifying, Lo Kam-cheung said that on the afternoon of August 20 he was playing near the Kowloon City rific range when he went down stream nearby and walked oleng it towards the Chek Yun Yuen believe village. He had walked some dis- contribution to the continnetal de- taukok, Lungkong is midway be- tance when he saw a man lying fence scheme will be in guaranice-tween Tamshui and the railway.

ing the United States air, military Along the East River area, down on a sandy patch with one of and naval access to strategle raw Japanese have pushed southwestwards his hands in the stream. The man materials.

from Sheklung towards the was dead, and there was a rope.

jaren. They claim to have occupied around his hands and neck.

It is generally recognised that the Tungitun on Tuesday and yesterday Giving evidence, Dr. R. C. Jones, western Hemisphere will chiefly rely Tung medical officer in charge of the Kow- on the United States defence forces afternoon entered Chikling, six miles loon Mortuary, said that on August despite the rapid improvement of the west of Tungkun,

A separate unit of the Japanese 28 he performed a post

mortem defence forces of the South American examination

deceased. Republies. For example Brazil is forces entered Shekpin, four miles Externally, the body was that of a sald to have 300 serviceable fighting south of Tungkun. well-developed and well-nourished planes.

man.

the Dn

the

delta

JAPANESE LEAFLETS FALL IN HONGKONG

Shum

an. The eyes, face and lips were Despite the development ofl congested and bruised, and the President Roosevelt's continentni tongue was enlarged and blue. A solidarity the policy must await the piece of rope. was wound tightly pan-American conference at Lima," Japanese planes flew over around the deceased's neck three Omicials are convinced that any times, and was firmly knotted under agreement reached will take the form Clun this morning and dropped leaf- the left ear.

Three loops of bls of an unwritten agreement instead of lets, calling upon the soldiers and written military alliancetvilians not to appose the occupation rape were loosely encircling the left a

of the border, city. wrist, and continued under the right United Press. arm-pit, being tied tightly around the right wrist.

The internal examination, con-

Some of the leaflets were carried by the wind Into British territory.

Refugees and wounded soldiers are

tinued Dr. Jones, revealed that there! COLONIAL SERVICE already arriving at Shum Chun, and

were deep rope Indentations around the neck and right wrist. There

was no fracture of the ribs. The Germans Should Enter

heart was enlarged, and the brain was congested with small haemor- rhoges on the surface. There was no fracture of the skull. Death was due to asphyxiation following stran- gulation.

British-Ranks-

report that fighting is in progress only a few miles away.

Machine-gun fire is audible on the wesley zeelion of the Hongkong, border.

of

Some of the leaflets dropped by London, Nov. 23.

the Japanese planes over Shum Chum have been retrieved on the British "Germans ought to enter the Bri-side of the border.

They bear a reproduction of the Replying to a question put by Mr.tish Colonial Service, above all, the

departments," declares Rising Sun emblem and carry the Macfadyen, witness said that in his technical optalon it was quite impossible for Lord Lugard, former Governor of warning to the people that resistance the deceased to have tied the rope Hongkong and a member of the Per-will end in their own undoing.

"Paste this leaflet on the door around himself in the manner that manent Mandates Committee of the

League of Nations, in letter to your dweiling, remain indoore, and It was found on him.

you will come to no harm," the leaf- Answering Inspector Carcy, wit- The Times to-day. ness said that there was no fracture Lord Lugard repeats the British let states. of the neck. The fracture would not view that no single mandate Power have necessarily occurred it the rope could surrender a mandate obtained around the neck had been tightened after the end of the world war as a de- result of common agreements, and gradually. Judging from the ccused's physique, It would have guarantees among allied and asso- taken, if he was not unconscious at clated powers. He states, however, that time, at least two or three men that he would be glad if within her to fasten the rope around his neck colonies, Britain would concede other and Ughten it sufficiently to cause powers the greatest possible equality death.

In economic matters a policy that The

further hearing of the inquest, Sir Samuel Hoare advocated in the was adjourned untl Friday, at 2.30 plenary sension of the League of Na-

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