Shanghai, June 8. A Chinese coolie was killed instantly at about 7.25 am. yesterday when he was struck by an S.V.C. motor lorry, with trailer, at the corner of Han~ kow and Kiangse Roads. The Russian private driving the lorry is not being charged, it is understood, as police enquiries show that he was not to blame for the accident.
The lorry, No, 15959, was proceeding slowly (owing ta the wet roads) along Hankow Road and had just reached the Kiangse Road corner when the coolie rushed out in front and was hit by the loft front part of the vehicle. He was rushed to hospital but was dead' his arrival, B.W.A. Rooms Fire Shanghai, June Fire broke out in the rooms of the British Women's Association in the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank building at about 825 o'clock last night and the resultant damage was. vase broken and a ratten chair some linoleum destroyed the:
Fire engines from Central Fire Station attended the fire, which was only a small one: what started itthad not been determined last night.
From 1902 to 1903, General Wan hope was aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, Cape of—Good Hope, and during the Great War he commanded the 2nd Battalion. The Black Watch in France and' Mesopotarnia.
1923, General Wauchope was military. 'Member. of the Overseas Delegation to. Australia and New Zealand, and for the next three years. hho was 'Chief of the British. Section of the Military' Inter-Allled Commls-Slon of Control" at Berlin, From 1627 to 1929, he was G.0.C, 44ih Home Counties Division, Territorial Army, and from 1029 until. 1931, when he took up his Palestine post, he was G.0. Northern Ireland Division.
1936, General Wauchope retired fiom the British Army on pay, and in March this year was relieved of his Palestine post. He io staying here for fan indefinite period as the quest of Major-General Telfer-Smollet,—One of Major-General. Telfer-Smollett's sons Is. 2nd Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), which during the South African War of 1899-1002 was one of the regiments forming the Highland Brigade, General Wauchope's decorations include the 04 In 1000; CC3.0, Jeteated in 1933; and the K.ci, created 1031, "He was made a 260, in 1917, a exe, in 1919 and a ow, in 1023.
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