Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, of Denny, were prostrated with grief when a telegram from the Colonial Office an-rounced that their son, John Fisher Scott, a detective-sergeant in the ongkong police, had accidentally shot himself dead.
They went into mourning and from the pulpit of Denny Old Parish Church a. public tribute was paid to their son's life and character.
Letters of sympathy id condolence reached them from friends all over the countr:
Mr. Scott, who was lying ill with pneumonia, suffered a relapse.
Then came a second telegram from the Under-Secretary for the Colonies Deeply regret that notification of your son's death was sent in error. it has been ascertained from the Hongkong Government that your son alive and well."
The terrible mistake is" explained ty the Colonial Office as being due the coincidence that two seri sariis of police in Hongkong were similarly pamed The Thames pleasure steamship Royat Eagle, with 2,000 passengers on board, struck and damaged the Tilbury landing stage recently,
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