Disappointment was in store for the small number of people in the know who waited at The Point on Sunday afternoon for the anticipated arrival of M. C, E. W. Ricou, the well-known Macao and Hongkong flying man, who was expected to make a landing there between four o'clock and five o'clock in the afternoon. The news of his flight from the south came as a great surprise to the French community and officials, there having been no preliminary announcement, of any kind regarding the enterprise. During the course of Sunday forenoon, however, M. Réau, Consul-General for France, received a telegram which had been despatched by M. Ricou from Macao on Saturday. The telegram stated, "Starting to-morrow (Sunday) from Macao, weather permitting. Expect, to reach he Point about five Tt has, of course, been known for some time past that M. Ricou intended to make a Macao-Shanghai fight, but it was scarcely anticipated' that he would Teave the matter of making the necessary arrangements in such an informal condition.
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