Japanese Seaman Murdered
In Wayside District
Woman Witness Alleges Chinese Assailant
victim lunging forward and failing on his face to the pavement.
Another murder of a Japanese, cording to the witness, the shoot- occurred in the International ing took place at close range. the Settlement, Shanghai, on Nov. 11, the fading of the body, in a Jane off Balkal Road, causing in- tense excitement and provoking the. ugual turnout of Japanese marines in campaign' kit,' The assallant escaped, and mystery surrounds, the motive for the
crime. The circumstances are be- ing investigated by the Settlement Police, Japanese Consular Police and officers of the Japanese Naval Landing Party, who find the case a difficult one, states the "North China Daily News."
A preliminary investigation fall- ed to reveal defliste Traces of blood where the man was found, a bullet wound in his back, a few steps from Baikal Road. It is be- lleved he had died when discover. ed, and he was pronounced dead upon admission to the Foo Ming Hospital, where he was taken by ambulance. The bullet had emerged from the chest, on the left side, and a cartridge case was found in the alleyway. A pistol also was found, about five yards from the body.
The victim of the shooting was Yasuji Takase," a middle-aged member of the crew of the N.Y.K. freighter. Kasagi Maru, moored at the NYK. Whart opposite the root.of Baikal Road, not far from the scene of the crime. The ship had arrived in port train Kobe yesterday.
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ONE WITNESS
There was one witness, a young Japanese woman, who had met Takase on board the Kasagi Maru and who was walking with him in the alleyway when, it is said, two shots were fired from behind. She Was not wounded. one of the bullets going wild. The couple were on their way to a Japanese restaurant in the alleyway, which is in the "night-life zone of the Way-side district.
STATEMENT MADE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 18, 1936.
11
£4 BID BRINGS *£2,500
FASTER R.A.F. FIGHTERS
"Lucky Parson" Sells 300 M.P.H. Exceeded
Mediaeval Relic
Bought by a'shrewd buyer in East Anglia for £4, a number of Panels of madieval stained glass have been sold in New York for £2,500, states "The Daily Tele- graph."
This sale is the last incident in a chain of circumstances extend-
In
The Japanese press quoted Miss Abe as saying that the assallanting over 500 years, was a slerider Chinese, dressed in: working clothes, and that he a peared to be a young man. The lighting in the alleyway is only fair and it was difficult for the witness to give a,detailed descrip- tion. She said the murderer rane past her towards Sin Kai Lan Road, Into the maze of obscure lanes into the neighbourhood. No one else appeared to be Ir the alleyway which la known as Dan Nyeu Li, at the time.
pre-Reformation * days these beautiful panels were made in Flanders.
At some later date they were taken
to Venice.
MARINES CORDON
Shortly after the murder
had been reported, Jupanese naval patrols started to arrive and to form a cordon about the scene: Lieut.-Comdr. Tadano, staff offi- cer, and other oficials directed their operations, which included the posting of sentries, carrying rides with axed bayonets and wearing steel helmets and waist- coats, at the entrance to Dau Nyeu Li. Several lorry-full of marines were placed in the immediate neighbourhood. Photograph of the scene were taken by the Muni- cipal Police and by the Japanese.
The body of Takase remained at Foo Ming Hospital last night and an autopsy will be performed there to-day. It is reported that he leaves a wife and two children in Kobe,
The investigation caused a num- ber of high S. M. Police officials' to visit the scene during the even- ing, including Maj. K. M. Bourne, Mr. R. C. Alers, Mr. S. C." Young and Mr. A. Tajima, Deputy Com- missioners: Mr. C. W. Gilbert and Mr. S.. Uyehara, Assistant Com- missioners: Supt. J. Sinclair and Supt. H. D. M. Robertson. division officers, and many others.
Here they were bought by the fifth Earl Cadogan, grandfather of the present peer. They were sent to England. but
no use was made of them, They were lost sight of and were found many years later behind the panelling of an attic. Packed in a deep box they the offered for sale on Nov. 11: 1935. at Earl Cadogan's home at Cul lord Hall Bury St. Edmunds. and were knocked down to a clergyman for £4
Not long afterwards" they were offered "in a London sale-room and were withdrawn from public competition at £1.120.
SCHNEIDER TROPHY
SPEEDS
The Royal Air Force is being re- equipped to provide a speed-up of 100 miles an hour. New fighters. now in production exceed 300 miles an hour, states Major CC. Turner, in the "Dally Telegraph."
A comparable speed-up took place about six years ago.
Then the new fighters were 50 miles per hour faster than those they re- placed.
The change now taking place indeed, a greater one, And it affects a wider range of types.
The actual performance of the new fighters must not be divulged. but speeds exceeding 300 miles per hour have been officially admitted.
In the replacement now taking place of certain bombers. General Purpose, Reconnaissance, and Army types, proportional speed in- crease is effected.
the
A MYSTERY SOLVED
The mystery has since been
Hengrave, who cleared up by, Sir John Wood, of has been able to tell the Rev. Richard Ridge, the clergyman who made the lucky purchase, some precise details of the purchase. Here is this in- | It teresting letter:
The Schneider Trophy was won by Great Britain in 1931 at a speed 0.340 miles per hour. Few who "saw that contest expected that in the course of five years Air Forc! Aghters would be in the same When attention was first drawn speed class. Many. indeed, ques to the "luck" at the sale at Culford tion whether there was any prac- Hall. there was much speculation tical aspect of that contest. about the manner in which the Doubters are answered by relic had ever found an English fact that at least one of the new home.
fighters now in production bears a family likeness to the Schneider Trophy winner. Its speed is not hampered by floats; ft employs less power; its wheels are drawn up in flight; it has a propeller of variable pitch: it carries war equipment, and the pilot Has sufficient cockpit room to use it carries enough fuel for operational duties.
Immediately after the Trophy: was won outright Great Britain set up a new world speed record---4074 miles per hour; and in October.
Stanchis.
Hengrave,
Bury St. Edmunds,
12.10.31.
Dear Mr. Ridge, If the news has not already reached you I heard yesterday that the Hon. Alexander Cadogan, now At an early hour this morning Minister in China, was with his no arrests had been made and the father, Lord Cadogan (grandfather: Japanese sentrles were substan- of the present earl) when he tially reduced.
bought your glass window in The co-operation of the Chinese Venice. Lord. Cadogan thought it municipality in the search for was something very good, and gave the murderer or murderers was a fair price for it. But the oppor- pledged to Japanese consular off-tunity to use it nevez turned up, cials at 11.30 o'clock last night by and Alexander was the Mr. O. K. Yul, Secretary-General member of the family who knew only
about it and he was in China! Hence your good fortune at the Culford sale.
Takase and his companion. Miss Toshiko Abe, waitress, were going to the Sinfune Restaurant. close by, when the man was shot. The time of the attack was about 8.40 p.m. and. within a few minutes the Wayside Police Station was notified by telephone. An am- bulance was ordered and it took the victim to hospital. The cart- ridge case and pistol found in the alleyway were of 32 calibre. Ac-of the Shanghai City Government,
ARCTIC WATERS
FOOTBALL TALK IN CHURCH VESTRY
Your sinerely.
Epic Tour Brought Deacon's Criticism Of Levity throughout the third Sallsbury
"To An End
3
STRENUOUS VOYAGE
Halifax. Canada. When the Eastern Aretle relle:
ship "Nascopic" dropped anchor here another strenuous voyage through Arctic waters came to an end. The Nascople completed a 21 month Journey through Hudson Bay and the Arctic Archipelago during which she called at Kudson Bay Company, Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police Canadian government
stations on Arctic islands and on the fringe of the Arctic mainland and steamed as far north as 800 miles from the Pole.
The voyage was strenuous and full of interest to passengers. While for most the long journey of over 10,000 miles the waters
"All deacons are not decorous. Some can be guilty of levity.
"They discourse football results in the vestry.
J. "A. H. Wood. The Earl Cadogan (1840-1915) who bought the window in Venice was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
administration from 1895 to 1902.1 The Hon. Alexander Cadogan mentioned was his youngest sor. and is now 52.
"They smoke their pipes at dea-, cons' meetings and knock them out on the church railings after- MR. E. DE LOTBINIERE
wards.
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"They talk of business or even lighter matters right up to their entry into church-then they as- sume that peculiar veneer of piety which only deacons can assume,"
This indictment was uttered by Mr. J. B. Gotts, himself a deacon in a London church, at the au- tumn assembly of the Congrega- tional Union of England and Wales at Birmingham.
Mr. Gotts said that conversa tions in some vestries were not a At prelude to the atmosphere oft
the sanctuary, "I have heard min- isters discussing the previous day's
DIVORCED
The Hon. Elizabeth Alice Cedilla Joly de Lotbinlere (nee Jolliffe), of Broad-mead, Meratham, Surrey, was granted a decree nis1 by Mr. Justice, Langton in the. Divorce Court recently against Mr. Ed- mond Joly de Lotbinlere, on the ground of the husband's adultery at a London hotel with a woman named Mary Chancellor,
The suit was not defended. The wife's case was that; after a time, the marriage ceased to be happy, as they had very little in common and the did not share
1935, they had lived apart. her husband's tastes. Since March,
Early this year she learned that her husband had stayed with a woman at a London hotel
HIS COOK
HOUSEKEEPER
were open, the vessel encountered football results with deacona five ice fices and icebergs. She had to break through an ice field at Ministers should discourage auch minutes before going into church. Southampton Island to the North levity," he said. of Hudson Bay and had to dodge icebergs in Davis Straits still far-been squabbling for a year or 50 At ope church where they had ther to the North. Seals, walrus he went to a deacons meeting and and polar bears could be seen from round both minister and deacons time to time from the decks of the smoking. He would ban smoking steamer. Three polar bears were captured and brought back for the
on church, premises. Quebec city 200logical gardens.
The annual voyage of the Nas- cople forms the link
between scientists to carry on investiga- Canada and the government of tions on the islands and doctors Canada with the Northern wilder- to look after the Bakimo wards of ness, vast in extent and only very the government. The vessel re- sparsely settled. The majority of turned with a cargo of furs, with the settlers in the northem wastes
police who had, been relieved or are tribes of nomadic Fakimos who their arduous duties and a number live mainly by hunting and trap-of fur traders. In the Nascople's ping. The main commercial pro- return cargo were whale oll, seal ducts of the far North are white oll, some seal and bear skins and fox furs.
many white whale hides. She also On her voyage North the Nasbrough back many marine fossils cople carried about 1,200 tons of gathered by scientists in the supplies for the scattered posts of North It was discovered by ture to Carter, his "cook-bouse the region. She also carried police scientists during the voyage that to relieve others who have been on part of the region visited had guard tri desolate outposts, risen 600 feet since the ice age.
Twenty-one-year-old Alfred Car- ter-then a boy of 16-obtained employment on the estate of Dr,' Ernest Blater. organist and com- poser, at Stanwell Moor, Staines Middlesex
Carter later became companion to Dr. Slater. He kept his ac- counts, drove his car, and occasion=" ally, cooked for him. ::
Dr. Slater died last August, and in his will he left an annuity of £350 and his residence and furni
keeper-chauffeur."
Dr. Slater left £26,784, with net. personalty 228,287.
RIFLE MATCH
British Beat Americans
GOOD INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES"
An enjoyable ride match took place between the US. Anlatie Fleet and the China Fleet, at Stonecutters rifle range, on Tues- day last (Nov. 10), when the latter were successful by fifty-one palats. The China Fleet scored a gross aggregate of 877 as against 826 by the Americana.
The best individual performance was returned by Sg Blandford- with a total of 114, Doyle with 112, was the best effort for the US. Asiatic Fleet.
AMERICAN TEAM
Doyle Block Judson Duncan McLaughlin Cargili Carmen Reld
Slow Snap Blow 200x 200x 500x Ttl.
33 46 93 112
30 "48 32 110
32
31
3 ន ន ន ន
45 33 110
48 30 109
46 29 104 47 30 103
22 36
i
43 31 103 17 75
Grand Total 826
BRITISH TEAM Sgt. Blandford.. 31 50 33 114 Col. Pellow....... 31 49 32 112 A.B. Bowerman 31 48. 33 112 Sgt. Nethercott 31 46. 33 110 33 Cpl. Figgitt
44 Sgt. Warwick... 33 41 34 108 A.B. Hewitt....... 30 48 31 107 Shpt. Buily 32 41 32 -105
Grand Total 877
32. 109
Since 摄 South Coast 'railway train stopped in a. tunnel for nearly an hour it is suggested that signahmen should be provided with ferrets
1934, Italy, having "already won figure. Herein lies the promise" or the record, advanced the speed to even geater practical speeds than 440.68 miles per hour, the present the best of to-day.
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