London, Dec. 7.
Owing to bad' weather the Queen Mary was unable to disembark 250 passengers from New York, including Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador to the United States, when she arrived at Plymouth today with 2,000 bags of mail.
Tenders bearing officials and visitors succeeded in getting alongside the giant liner, but the weather grew worse subsequently and rope after Tope mooring the tenders broke.
It was finally decided to disembark passengers and orders were given for officials and visitors to leave the ship. Before this could be done, it became impossible for the tenders to remain alongside. The Queen Mary proceeded up the Channel, taking with her visitors, immigration and postal Officials, and press photographers.
While the Queen Mary was at anchor, officers from Scotland Yard made inquiries into a report that there were anarchists aboard pledged to assassinate Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Credentials of passengers were examined, but nothing suspicious was found.—Reuter, Straw Hut Colony Burns In- Western Chápei Another straw-hut colony was virtually destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, in Chapei opposite Tonquin Road. Approximately fifty mow of land were burned over by the flames, which razed straw-huts and other makeshift structures in the area.
Although the blaze was in "Ta Tao" territory, Settlement fire engines from the ig Road Station went to the "Scene and the firemen worked for than three^hours battling the mes, No-one was injured, as far as
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