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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1928.
CHINESE VIEWS.
AN AMAH'S DEATH.
REJOICING OVER NATION-
*AĻIST VICTORIES.
MURDER BY SOMEONE UNKNOWN.
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The enquiry was concluded yes- Hongkong are high in their praise terday into the circumstances sur has received cable information rela- of the recent victories of the Nn rounding the discovery of the dead tive to the collison which is reported tionalist armies and of the immi body of a Chinese woman, in at to have occurred between that vossel ment occupation of Peking and advanced state of decomposition, and... Kershaw, oight miles east of Vineyard, Massachusetts, at 1.30 am. Tientsin. Nono lament the retire in a locked room at the Japanese on June 1 ment of the Fengilen armies into Primary School in Kennedy Road. The cable received states that the Manchuria and the subsequent In the afternoon an elder sister cargo of the President Garfield is un- bombing of the train of Chang of the dead woman was called. damaged and that she will all from Teo-lin. They rejoice in the Na-She said she knew her sister had New York on her next scheduled trip tionaliat occupaton of Chihli, say worked at the Japanese School for on June 9, two days later than pre- a viously advertised. Time will be ing that this will, to some extent,
seven or eight years and was
made up, en route, and she will leave Hooth the sorrows of the Chinoge
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San Francisco on time. following the Sino-Japanese
She recognized the tar-ring clashes in Tainanfu, which result-produced in Court no one of a pair
od in the death of over one thou Ah Choi had worn, but was not camphor wood chest, witness found sand Nationalist troops. Some certain whether she had two gold that the clothing was stained with express the hope that before long teeth in the upper or lower jaw. blood, as it, by a rummaging hand. tho Nationalist future Govern-
She then said that last year, Under the bed witness found ment will be able to solve the Sino- she heard from another sister that tufts of hair. Two choppers in Japanese complications and the
a man pamed Ko Tang had threat the room bore blood stains and had outstanding problems betweeit
enod to kill the deceased if his hair adhering to them. China and other powers.
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"For many years," the Wah Kiu Yat Po remarks, "the Nationallets have struggled and fought for the downfall of militariam in North China, and now they have reach-Just as well have influenced her sheath tied with rattan strips,
which fitted with the newer of LIVERPOOL SERVICE A short time after, this threat, the two choppers. He said he Ko Chang was dismissed and was found this under the bed, and
As for Ko Chang's gave the opinion that the person PACIFIC SERVICE not seen since. brother, Ko Tang, the man who who took in one chopper used the uttered the threat, witness knew paper shenth to conceal the wea- him to be making his living by non.
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seen choppers had made every effort to district. He had not been
follow up the clue. He was able. about the School since.
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"The death of Chang Tao-lin lacks confirmatiun, but even if the news of his tragle ending is true, this will serve as an example to autocratic militarists of the fu Lure.
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Acting Detective Inspector Lane to locate the dealer at Cheung PASSENGER SERVICE the Nationalist entry said that on May 11, he went to Chau. But there the clue stopped into Peking, it is expected that the School and was shown a lock short. The man was a wholesale all the powers will recognise the led room. A bad smell was notice-dealer, the chopper, was full advereign rule of the Na-able in the vicinity of this room, cheap and common kind used in OUTWARD SERVICE tionalist Government, and finally which was situated in the back every Chinese house-hold, and solve the complicated relations be-premises, in the ground floor, and they were sold to hawkers and The police had tween China and the foreign pow- could be cut off from the rest of oxeried every effort to locate the the ground floor by a door which
owner of the particular wespon was in a passage outside the room found in the room of the dead Nationalist's Opportunity.
Ho. found the door of the room Nam Chung Po emphasizes the itself, secured by a padlock and woman, but so far without success. folly and evil of the civil strife on the padlock was a faint smear
The Coroner at the conclusion in China, adding, "The retirement as of blood, showing up darkly
un- of the evidence, indicated the of the Fengtien armies should against the white paint. He serve as a lesson to all militarists screwed the padlock and the door three points on which questions of China.. After the capture of immediately opened, the ordinary would have to be answered by the Peking, the Nationalists should keylock in the door not being used. jury. In the first place, they had
activity abandon all military
This door could only be secured to discover if the dead woman was which would lead to a continuation from the outside, it being found Ah Choi, and his Worship thought of civil war."
that the window of the room was that the evidence in regard to the also secured by bars from the in- jewellery and house keys found Recognizing the great oppor-side and was also protected in the on the dead body, had proved sho tunity now before the Nationalists,
was the missing woman. the Kung Sheung Po urges that lower half with wire netting.
The inference was that some The second point was whether after the, taking of Peking and Tientsin, the Nationalists should other person must have fastened she had died a natural death, or call a national conference and the door as he or she left the room, whether she had died from vio- sufficient evi- Inside the room witness found lence. There was should forsake the "party com
a dead body. in 1 very ad-dence in the testimony of Dr. plex" of placing the Kuomintang vanced state of decomposition. In Cannon to prove a case of murder, before the welfare of the country. the photograph taken by the police as witness his discovery of a This paper solemnly warns the of the interior, the bed was shown wound in the jaw, and of another. Nationalists that one of their to the left with a chair overturn- part of her person being mutilated. duties is to re-take Shantung from ed beside it. The head of the Then there was Inspector Lane's the Japanese.
body was covered over with the statenient in regard to the dis
n way which pre- ordered state of the room. bed, quilt, în cluded the possibility of the de- ceased having fallen out of the bed and dragged the quilt with
The Tai Kwong Po trusts that the Nationalitss will keep a sharp lookout for a recrudescence of Communist disturbances in North China during the present chaotic her. state" of the provinces there. It urges another "purge the party There were splashes of blood on campaign to eliminate from the the bed and almost every other Kuomintang all who are suspect-article of furniture was smeared. ed of being Communists.
Found in the Room.
Lastly, if the jury had found on those first two points that Ah Chof had been murdered, they were to return a verdict of wilful murder. There was not evidence to connect definitely any person, al- though they had heard of a thirent. nilegedly uttered by Ko Tang, who was now supposed to be making a The room was in disorder. One living as a robber in the country. "We cannot but rejoice at the of the chairs was thrown across Short of any definite evidence, the peaceful way in which the Feng-the body. There were two baskets jury was to return a verdict of lien-ites undertook their general on the bed the contents of which wilful murder against come per- withdrawal," says the Sun Chung had been pulled out and scattered son or persons unknown. Kwok Po. The critical period has about, A small, red bax, with The Jury returned a verdict in not yet passed and the Nationalists cotton wool inside it, which might the form suggested by his Worship. should adopt the most vigilant have contained jewellery, was left; In reply to the Coroner, In- measures in view of a possible up on the bed-empty. On examinspector Lane said investigations also 1 in the case were still continuing. rising of Communista in Peking."ing those baskets and
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