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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1988.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE
MURDER ON PEAK
Mrs. R.H. Challinor Dead: Husband In Hospital
-ARMS
SPEED-UP DISCUSSIONS
London, To-day.
The executive council of the Amalgamated Engineers Union. yesterday decided to accept the invitation of the Engineering and allied Employers' National Feder- ation to attend a conference to discuss proposals for meeting the Government's requirements in re- gard to the armaments speed-up, particularly in aircraft production. -Reuter.
FIRE RAGING IN FRENCH LUXURY LINER
Le Havre, To-day.
Fiendish Attack By Vengeful Houseboy
AIRCRAFT
EXPANSION PROGRAMME
London, To-day.
Mrs. Sybil Ruby Challinor, wife of Mr.'R. H, Challi-· Replying to Commons questions nor, of Imperial Chemical Industries (China) on the Government's aircraft ex- Ltd., was attacked in her sleep and fiendishly pansion programme, the Chancellor stabbed to death in the early hours of this of the Duchy of Lancaster announc- morning.
ed that he hoped to be in a posi- Her husband, who is district manager of the I.C.I.tion to make a comprehensive in Hong Kong, is lying in the War Memorial statement in the near future which Hospital suffering from multiple stab wounds would deal with many of the points received in grappling with the assailant; and raised.. The alleged murderer, a houseboy in the em- In another reply regarding
scope and objects of the investiga- · 'ploy of Mr. and Mrs. Challinor at No. 499, The tions by a party of experts visiting Peak, is detained in the Prison Ward of the the United States and Canada, Queen Mary Hospital, having jumped from the present able to add anything to roof on to a concrete pavement in a desperate the reply he gave on Tuesday bid to escape.
of last week.
The Parliamentary Labour Party,
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the
Lord Winterton said he was not at
Fire is raging in the These are the main features of a When the police arrived, Mr. in a published statement, has in- shocking tragedy which occurred Challinor's wounds had already timated that it proposes to raise French luxury liner at about four o'clock this morning, been dressed and he was sent soon the question of the air programme "Lafayette," and it is in the quiet Magazine Gap district afterwards, to the War Memorial in the Commons at an early date. feared that the whole in-of the Peak.
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Behind it lies the nursing of a
Hospital.
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terior has been complete-grievance by a houseboy under no- Mrs. Challinor was beyond aid
ly destroyed.
The outbreak was so fierce that firemen had to abandon attempts to extinguish it.
Thirty firemen trapped by the flames were rescued with difficulty. Some escaped, by rope ladders- through the drydock where the vessel is lying Noone is missing.
FLAMES SPREAD TO OIL TANK
The fire broke out while gineer was lighting one boiler furnaces, and the spread to the oil tank.
ceived testimonials.
LEAVING FOR HOME
.DISCUSSION SOUGHT
Lobby correspondents of the newspapers also. attribute to the tice, to whom, it is stated, testimon-when Dr. Durran arrived.
Liberals the intention of asking ials had been refused.
It is understood that the assailant for a discussion, of the Air Estim- The other five servants in the used two heavy carving knives for ates next Thursday, which is the house, also under notice, had re-the attack, and that Mrs. Challiñor supply day allotted to the Liberal
died principally as the result of a section of the Opposition. terrible wound in the chest.
In yet another answer yesterday, Later. Lord. Winterton told a member who Mrs. Challinor was due to leave The funeral of the late Mrs. Chal-asked about mass production for England at the end of the pre-linor has been arranged to take methods, that considerable de- sent month in order to bring back place this afternoon, passing the liveries already have been made of her daughter who is shortly leav-Monument at 3.30 p.m. The body aeroplanes produced by methods ing school, and although___it_was_is_to_be_cremated. not the intention of Mr. Challinor to accompany her, their house on an en-the Peak was to be given up. of the At about 4 o'clock this morning, flames Mr. Challinor was awakened by the It is now disclosed
terrible screams of his wife, and houseboy assailant after B&W the houseboy (Lam Chun) [from the grasp of Mr. Challinor standing over her bed stabbing sav- did not go immediately to the roof, agely.
Previously a fire had occurred board the "Lafayette" when she was in drydock here in 1933.
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Of 25,178 tons, the "Lafayette” on the Atlantic run to New York.-Reuter.
BRITISH PROTESTS IN TOKYO
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BEDROOM STRUGGLE
Mr. Challinor jumped out imme- diately and grappled with the as- rai'ant and in the struggle himself received multiple stab wounds about the arms and body, none of which however is believed to be dangerous.
SERVANTS ALSO ATTACKED
Later. that the escaping
approaching mass production.
Large-scale production methods, he affirmed, were being applied as far as practicable consistent with the high standard imposed by con- siderations of efficiency. British Wireless.
BRITISH ARMS
FOR CHINA
London, To-day.
but visited the servants' quarters and attacked two other men ser- vants with a hammer. They shield- ed themselves with a blanket and their injuries were slight. When other servants went crying down The total value of arms, ammu- the road, he ran to the roof, where nition and military and naval stores he crouched until the arrival of the exported from the United Kingdom Finally, the assailant escaped police. It was not until that mo- to China between June 1 last and ment that he jumped or fell to the the end of March, was £204,908,
It is learned that pavement.
he according to a Commons answer:- shattered his jaw in the fall. British Wireless.
from his grasp, ran on to the roof for some reason and then, appar- ently, jumped to the concrete pave- ment below, where he was found injured when the police arrived.
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The late Mrs. Challinor was 45 years of age and had not recently London, To-day. been in the best of health, having Questioned in the Commons suffered for some time, from a about complaints by British resi-]
weak heart. dents in the International Settle- Police stated this morning that ment in Shanghai that incidents in- Lam Chun's injuries are not likely volving violence by the Japanese to prove fatal. military authorities to the persons and property of foreigners were of frequent occurrence, Mr. R. A. But- ler, Under-Secretary for Foreign
TELEPHONED DOCTOR
Later.
It is revealed that it was - Mr.
· Affairs, said his attention had been Challinor who gave the alarm. Al- drawn to this complaint.
though seriously wounded, includ-
His Majesty's Ambassador in ing a wound in the abdomen, he Tokyo had made energetic repre-reached the telephone and com- sentations to the Japanese Gov-municated with Dr. Durran, in May ernment, with whom he had in-Road. ·
structions to take up all these mat- It was Dr. Durran who communi- tor urgently --British Wireless. cated with the police.
Here's Luck! DRINK
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