Blackwell, the Englishman who was killed with eight other persons when the Berlin-Vienna Lufthansa plane crashed near Dresden to-day, it is now learned that the deceased w a member of the Horgkong staff. of Butterfield & Swire.
Mr, Blackwell joined Messrs. Butterfield & Swire in 1919 after appointment was to Hongkong, but he was later transferred to Hankow offices of the company.
Returning to the Colony in 1925, ibsequently served for a short in Shanghai. He left Shang-on the Home leave which has so tragically last March and was expected back in the spring of 1951, He was 34 years of age at tthe time of his death and is survived formerly Miss Brodie, and two children very popular among a of friends here, to whom the news of his untimely death has come as a great shock.—Reuter and Special,
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