THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPII, MONDAY,
NOVEMBER
7,
1938.
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ALLEGED
ASSASSIN'S
ATTACK ON LADY
LEADING
IN
H.K. HOTEL
Chinese Marked Down As
Victim:
Intruder
Entered
Wrong Room By Mistake
AN ENGLISH WOMAN. A MYSTERIOUS AND SINISTER MAN, BELIEVED TO BE A JAPANESE, ARMED WITH A REVOLVER. AN UNKNOWN CHINESE MARKED DOWN
AS THE VICTIM OF AN ASSASSIN'S GUN. POLICE AND DETECTIVES.
THE SETTING:
A ROOM ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF ONE OF THE LEADING HOTELS OF THE COLONY. These are the ingredients of a plot, almost Edgar Wallacian in its conception, which was unfolded to the "Telegraph" on Saturday by one of the
General Chiang central figures, Mrs. Claude Brown. Po-Li Dies Of Heart Attack
Piquancy is added to the story related by Mrs. Brown by the fact that she was requested by police officials to withhold details from the Press.
In an interview on Saturday, however, the Hon. Mr. T. II. King, Commissioner [oj Police, confirmed the facts related by Mrs. Brown, adding that the information had Kwilin, Nov. 7. been withheld from the newspapers owing to the undesirability, at the time, of of the Chinese "Mitary making public the facts related by Mrs. Brown.”
General Chiang Po-li, acting Pre- sident
Academy. died of a sauden heart attack at the age of 57 at Ishan, west of Liuchow in Kwangi, on Nov. 4 white on his way to Tiny Kwalehow, on an official miss.ets.
WATE
Mrs. Brown was residing on, hotel was roon en the grene and a the third floor of the Peninsula m.nutes later Hotel,
"I retired early on the night!
told she
A native of Haining, Chekiang in question," General Chiang obtained the rank Telegraph."
of Siu Tsal in the Manchu regime.
He graduated from the Mitary!
the
"Some light surd awakened me)
window.
Academy in Japao and later studied at about half past two in the morning. military sence in Germany, Atter" detened intratly for a white, and then noticed a shadow puss the tut managed was petrißed. to switch on the light and I saw, standing behind the seller, a man armed with a revolver.
his return to China, he served counsellor to General Chau Erh-tum,] then Governor of Manchuria.. Later he became primepal of the Military Academy there.
In 1935, he went to Europe again. to study military aff.rs and attend-
ed the autum anoeuvres of the armies of various countries.
The
result of this trip was a treatise on national defence which created deep impression among the Chantse? military leaders,
Last winter, he made another trip to Europe to Inspect military affairs by order of the National › Government. He visited Germany,{ italy, France and England and re-] turned to China this spring.
"His face was covered with handkerchief of a check pattern. "POINTED REVOLVER AT ME"
"I screamed."
"Pointing the revolver at me as I' rat up an bed, the man approached.
"Stop gerraming!' he said sharply.! don't want to be compelled to hout you."
there.
the polee
The rx morning I was Inter- viewed by five poller officers, who,' in audition to taking copious notes, Look finger-prints from the wha-' dow-sill and frame.
"I was requested not to inform Inyone of the incident,"
Enquisis by the "Telegraph" have!
Chinese gentleman, elicited Bat wht me cannot be ascertained. was erupying the runm adjoining the one occupied by Mrs. Brown. The gentleman in question chicked of the Peninsula immediately after the incident.
heard
" tund: rstool that he Mrs. Brown's screams, but at the time bought the was dreaming.
מיירוג!
110
served
It is a well-known fact that ligh Chinese officials have no many occasions made the Peninsula Hotel their domicile in tongkong, many of them living there under allases In admitting to the Telegraph" on
the of Saturday that the story "Although the lower part of his vident had been withheld from the face was covered with a handker-Press, the Hon. Mr. T. 11. King, Com- chief he appeared to me to be a missioner of Polier, stated Wat
would have t Japanese. He snke perfect Eng- good purpose ish, in a cultured voler.
at the time by publication. General Chitong was a man of al
"thought he was a burglar, and Alert whether the Chinese gentle- strong sense of responsibility, Nut only a master of military scener, a pleaded with him to take whatever mas redding in the attjo ning root
may have been the intended victim was well-versed in literature, natural, he wanted and leave quickly.
** was speaking hysterically and of the soparant assumiation sitempt,
Int selences, diplomacy, political and
the Hon Mr. King d
tell yun. We economic sciences, and also had any voice was raisest.
Vide put his hand acres my mouth something I cannot
tried to stop me frum speak m. have followed up every angle to the "seroamed again, and he struck | ease. ine over the head with the revalver. "Stop serraming and listen to me for a while," he said savagely. Im hot hire to hurt you. I'm in the
Food command of the Entlab.} French, German, Italian and Japan-f ese languages.
Deceased is survived by his wife! and four daughters--Central News.
Soviet Purge Continues
Murrow, Nov. 6
well-informedt It believed in circles. that Admiral Smirnov has been arrested. He is sold i be held
ti responsible for
and
wrong room.
AGGRESSOR WAS ORIENTAL "We cannot say definitely that a Japanese was involved. i is ap-! parent that the apitressor win 200 1uppose I quietened down, for le Oriental: Mrs. Brown told
us the removed his hand from my face.
helloved he was a Japanese from his "COME TO KILL CHINESE"
appearance and speech." "Now, sten,' he said, 'P'm not here to harm you. I have come into this hotel la kill a Chinese gentleman who has done us
The Hen. Mc. King raid that police enquiries were continuing.
Brown Mr. Clauds
errived
inL
a lot Hongkong; alut 18 months ago la
of harm. I must 1 lm and take a private nur work. bua don't want any interference from an aceldent shortly after her arrival: you. If you don't remain still Prece sitated her spending a consider- have to shoot you in self-defence, able time in hospital. unsatisfactory
Later, she endeavoured conditions now reigning in the Soviet navy. He is the third navo ebiet: to have been rutnoved since Chelober,
1937.
A recent article in a newspaper stated: "The Soviet secret service has destroyed a wad of enemies of the people who have not long operated in the navy, but it is a great political mistake to believe that our navy bas been purged conclusively of al mur enemies.
M. Frinovsky took to neuve port) in the recent purge and organisa- tion of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, which led to the removal of Mardini Bluecher and several other high com-
manders-Router,
You don't know how lucky you!
to 21- we to be alive, he added. I was augurate a business venture, which unsarees-ful. Subsequently coming across to your bed to kill provest yon, and if you hadn't switched un she became resulent nursing sister Ilepale Bay Hotel, but liners Hight I would have done so.
for her to "Is again warned me not to make again made it necessary for any disturbance and hacked to theater hospital, where she underwent apperalieitis. Re- window, still covering me with the an operation for
cently, owing to complications, a weapon.
I watched
Herend operation became necessary. him, petrified.
Mrs. Claude Brown was convalese. Jambored through the window, and
Ing at the Peninsula Hotel from the in a twinkling was gone,
"I remained still for a moment and two operations when the remarkable windows and experiences related in her exclusive then rushed to the
Linterview with the "Tefestraph" oc-
Jammed them shut.
"Crying hynerically, I tol-phoned i curred.
Her terrifvint éxneriences netes- the Peninsula receptbin de, k and told hem what had happened. One of pitate further!inedest sttention for the clerks quickly came up and took injuries to the head, cured by the me downstain. The Manager of the revolver Futt
Japanese Airmen Destroy Refugee-Packed Train
CHANGSHA, Nov. 7.
IT IS NOW ANNOUNCED that a woman and children refugee train was bombed and completely destroyed by Japanese air- men and a large number of passengers killed while passing through Chunghupu sintion, between Sienning und Puchi, on the morning of October 24.
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and the unknown penuine ntfernet to
She muttered considerable shock. Mrs. Claude Brown is now en route. to Manila sober she la tukijg up o [new appointment.
$11,319 FOR DISTRESS RELIEF
Headed by donations of $1,000) from His Excellency the Governori and $10,000 by Sir Robert Ho Tung,:
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The train. It is revealed, was, children, who had been unable to the list of subscriptions received to specially
Aadame make their escape during the utter date for credit of the British Fund arranged by Chlang Kai-shek to evacuate large confusion which followed as soon us for the Relief of Distress in China
It was known the Japanese -numbers of women and children dur-making chase, were blusted or burned
ing the fast minute from Hankow and to terrible death.
Not satisor with the complete" Winchang.
Japanese planes, according to the destruction of the train, the Japanese
alanes continued their announcement, chased and stopped the train nt
Chunghupu. Power-terror by strafing the screaming and diving down from their height the seing refugeen with martine-guns Joanese airmen destroyed the whole and killing and wounding many train with two incendiary bombs. more of the helplera victims-
Large numbers of women and Central News.
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21.
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ROBERT WOOLSEY
Hongkong Favourite Dies In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6.
ROBERT WOOLSEY, famous comedian. who with Bert Wheeler rocked the world withi their performances in "Rio Rita," "Cuckoos" and half a dozen other comedies, has died.
Woolsey made hinwelf famous
as one of the cleverest comedians on the modern stage and screen by reason of his fast patter, but also by the fact that whenever he appeared before the camera he had a cigar in his mouth. When he and Bert Wheeler, his screen partner, came to Hong- kong in 1933, they made personal appearance at the Cea- tral Theatre where their film "Hold 'Em Tail" was being shown, and Woolsey had the inevitable cigar between lips.
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