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一拜禮 號五月二十英港香 MONDAY, DECEMBER
5,
1938.
日四十月十
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TORTURERS'
FIENDISH What the Film Censor Banned
MURDER NEAR BORDER
Mutilated Body of Victim Had No
Ears Or Thumbs
GRUESOME POLICE DISCOVERY
ONE OF THE MOST FIENDISH INSTANCES OF DEATH BY TOR- TURE EVER RECORDED IN HONGKONG HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO LIGHT BY THE RE- COVERY OF THE BODY OF AN UNKNOWN CHINESE FROM THE SHUM CHUN RIVER.
The body, badly decom- posed, was found floating in the river near Lokmachau, on the border.
Before the man had been put to death by having his throat! gashed from end to end, his) torturers had
cut off both his thumbs; cut off both his cars; criss-crossed
his face and body
with deep incisions, not sufficiently deep to cause his death. unless through shock, but merely AN additional method of torture. The
final net was to slit the man's) throat, thus ending his torture with swift and merciful death.
Preliminary Investigations indicate
crime was com
that the fendish
mitted either in or on the shores of
Deep Bay.
The waters.
British
Deep of territory and for
Bay Are several
weeks past have been infested with
pirate craft, an average of at least)
beginning ol
DR. C...T. WANG, former. Chinese Ambassador to the United States, has returned to Hongkong by Pan American Clipper on Saturday. Staff Photographer.
Big Opium Haul
On H.K.
WHEN
Steamer
THE BLUE FUNNEL vessel
the polled since the be reported arrived in Singapore recently from Hongkong,
The northern shores of Deep Day Worth HK$40,000 was discovered on board.
November.
nre Chinese territory, recently oc- Singapore Ехсіне -officers! cupied and evacuated by the boarded the ship as she lay Japanese.
The body of the
unknown mot,]
alongside the Main Wharf at
whose age is placed at about 30 Keppel Harbour and discovered
Italians' Riot With
French In Shanghai
BLOOD FLOWS IN "BLOOD ALLEY"
In Hongkong (See Page Six)
Japan To Buy Three Condor Type Planes
TOKYO, Dec. 4. According to the "Nichi Nichl,” a contract will be signed shortly between the Japan Aviation Company and the German Fockowulf Alreenți Company for the purchase of three German monoplanes, sister-craft of the Condor plane which recently flew from Berlin to Tokyo in record
Lime.
The cost of the machines will be 600,000 yen cach,
Payment will be made in kind. including soya beans,—Reuter,
SHOOTING AFFRAY: MAN IN COURT
17-Year-Old Girl Charged With Arms' Possession
SHANGHAI, Dec. 5. BLOOD FLOWED in the famed "Blood Alley" last night in one of the biggest fights in the history of Shanghai, while more than 30 shots were tired when Italian marings and sailors fought French, police, and The sensational shooting affray ou
Saturday morning, as a result of i Chinese and Russian police-which Lance Sergeant 11. R. Terrei! men, serving with French police.
the
An American patrol officer in "Blood Alley" said that at 10 p.m. two Italian marines, “ap- parently looking for trouble," set on and hit an American sailor.
He stopped the fight and told the Italians to "behave" after (which the Italians entered the
Frisco cabaret.
iles in hospital dangerously wounded with a bullet in his throat, took a dramatic turn this morning.
At the Central Magistracy, three charges were preferred against S. L. Wong, alins Wong Wan. He charged:
a
was
(a) Wounding, OF cousing grievous bodily harm, with intent to murder, Herbert Ramsay Terrel; (b) Shooting, with intent to do grievous bodily harm;
(c) Being in possession of an unlicensed automalie pistol and one round of ammunition.
A 17-year-old Chinese girl, Chan Sin-kwan, was arraigned with Wong on this charge relating to the possession of the anlicensed pistol and ammunition.
Cabaret patrons sald that the Itallang soon picked a fight with It Is alleged that the girl was taken Achilles French sullors and British soldiers. into custody with Wong when the The Italians were badly beaten up, police, acting on information, ralded opium and later they returned with a squad a room in Luk Kwok Hotel, Wan-
SOLDIERS
yoare, la believed to have been one of the largest hauls of illicit DEPART FROM
washed up the still waters of Shum opium made this year. Chun by recent spring tides.
CLUE FROM CLOTHES
The opium must have been stored on board the Achilles in Hongkong.
No extensive search was necessary
The gruesome discovery was made to discover the opium, which was
by a Chinese police officer attached found in the firemen's forecastle, to Lokmachaut Police Station.
apparently ready to be lowered to a The man was dressed in tattered sampun. There were eight sacks,
when the body was discovered.
FRONTIER
H.K. Polico Resume Complete Control
THE WITHDRAWAL of all
of Italian sailors who proceeded to chai, wreck the Frisco enbaret.
The police arrived on the scene and immediately the Italians set on them. The police fired their revolvers into the enbaret's ceiling and also into the oir as a warning, due to the fact that they were almost overpowered.
Police reinforcements made a timely arrival and averted a serious spilling of blood, after the officers had again fired into the air.
American and British sailors who were present in the Alley's cabarets were ordered to leave, the cabarets being closed down at I am. Instead of the usual 5 an.
A
Enquiries at the Queen Mary
reveal hospital this morning
that Lance Sergeant Terret is progressing as favourably as can be expected.
is condition is still dangerous.
1938.
BUN LOP
DESKOWINA
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2,000 Teeth
An Interview
With a Pony
INTERVIEWED BY THE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER HE SAID....One of the Bi poules innded in Mongkong from North China last week seems to be expressing his views rather forcibly - on his trip from war forn China to peaceful Hongkong.
Stalemate
Ends War In
North
China
CHUNGKING, Dec. 5:
Delia Brings Hankow Railway and at central Hupch along the
Air Mail
clothing, but only shreds remained) containing 2,726 tales of opium, valued at $10 si lael. No ownership The blood-stained remains of the could be established.
Excise officers suspected that sin soldiers from frontier posts squad of 40 Italian callors from The Imperial Tale v 11.20 am, te along the Hupeh-Hunan high- LATE NEWS clothing may, however, give police n clue to the identity of the unknown attempt to snuggle optum ashore was ordered by Army Headquar- been as- from the Achilles was to be made ters in Hongkong at dawn this man, and detectives have signed to the case.
and a sen patrol kept watch the night before the seizure was made, morning.
DUKE OF KENT FOR NORWAY
London, Dec. 4.
from
This prevented the illicit "cargo" All Militory Posts, including those being lowered to a sampan) which figured in the early incidents, manned by accomplices of the smug- were evacuated at 8 am, when the glers.
frontier was handed over to the civil This is the second recent haul of authorities.
WAR PACE in south Hunan along the Canton-
Hankow-Ichang highway which was slowed down since a fortnight ago has now been further slackened to practically a stalemate with the invaders busily digging Daedalus Becomes
in to prevent Chinese counter-attacks. A Total Loss
At south Hunan, the Japanese Airways plane Delia are held up on the railway and rushed to the shore and murched today with the malls delayed from way within "Blood Alley," but they were stopped Saturday.
radius while the officers opened negotiations
The Dello left Bangkok yesterday while in central Hupeh the thirty kilometres from Yo-yang, with police officials, later proceeding and stopped overnight at Hanoi. tor police headquarters.
It is now learned that the Daedalus Japanese spearhead is about 100 which was burnt out at Bangkok on kilometres west of Hankow. Saturday afternoon is a total lose.
Along the Tungting Lake, wherei An inquiry is being held.
The planes Dacdanus and Delphinus Japanese gunboats had been most morrow at dawn on the outward mail described in military messages re- Ten minutes after the sallors run, and there is another plane due celved here as quiet with occasional had returned to their gunboat here at 5 p.m. on Wednesday with visits by Japanese planes doing re- truckload of Italian marines arrived þfurther Christmas maits.
ARRESTS MADE
Six Italians were arrested, but four
a
of
opium, brought from Hongkong, The 1st Battalion, The Middlesex were later released and the others will hop off from Hongkong to-active two weeks ago, the pince is It is officially stated that the Dule made by the Singapore revenue off- Regiment, and the Rajputana Rines, sent to hospital. of Kent will represent the King at the cers. Not long ago, 1,000 (acis of who were drafted to the frontier funeral of Queen Maud of Norway in oplum was seized in the engine-room during the emergency period, return- Oslo on Thursday, as a result of the of the Swedish ship Miramar after ed to their camps at Lowu and Sal- hunting accident sustained by the it arrived from Hongkong with a
wan concurrently with the military Duke of Gloucester,--Reuter,
I cargo of cont for Borneo,
withdrawal.
Face Towel May Aid In Tracing Taipo Murderer
The border is now completely normal, with increasing numbers of refugees returning to their farms and villages.
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POPE HAS RELAPSE
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and rushed the French police, causing the police arain to fire. into the air, after, fearning of un-
confirmed reports that the Italians Plane Saves
had shot ons policeman' and s civilian.
Very high French police officinis and Italion oMeers and Consular ometats then arrived де "Blood Alley".
Thirst-Crazed Crew Of Ship
Berlin, Dec. 4.
connoltring work.
A message from Changtch stated severe artillery duel raged in the vicinity of Yoyang on the morning of December 3 and Insted throughout the day. At Cheulingki, just above Yoyang on the neck of the Tungling |Lake, ʼn blg fire was reported_raging. In central Hupel, drongly held Chinese positions defled further Japanese westward thrust trom A SMALL FACE TOWEL, believed to have been sold at
Chicho, Kingshan and Twaothih. The French authorities massed one of the Chinese departmental stores in Hongkong, may lead
police, and the riot squad was drawn
The main force of the Japanese) Five thirst-crazed members of the troops along this Ine, tearing con= | police to the murderer of an unknown Chinese man whose body
up facing the truckload of Italian crew of a sailing ship which was in slant guerilin nagging and harassing ROME, Dec. 4. was found on a hillside yesterday near the main New Ter-
marines, who stopped their attack distress near Bathurst, West Africa, from their hideouts along the Tapley: ritories highway to Taipo.
THOSE VERY CLOSE to the when surrounded by the pollen, own their lives to the trans-Atlantic Mountains, have been withutrawn toj
Pope were again seriously Marks on the torso indicated that concerned to-day by the state guard when the Italian officers pro from Brazil, the airliner wirelessed to line from Sinyme in south innan. The battered body of the man
However, the police withdrew their
Lufthansa air liner.
Hankow. was discovered, lying on its the man had been dragged to the of his health.
Sighting their plight after crossing Throughout the extended Japanese mised to be responsible for the men back, above the washing tanks pot where his
Signs of exhaustion made not to leave if they were wanted for the mother-ship Ostmark, which was Chinese vertila activities have been near the highway.
treatment by the Pope's medical questioning.
moored at the mouth of Gamble, increasing following the recapture of The man's feet were tied with tha The police report does not indicate
whether he was killed before or attendant necessary this even- Eye-witnesses sakd that the Halian The Orimark put to sea and rosques Lorian and Lowanghwalk Japanne marines, after slugging two French the crew to-day, while the plane few forces at Binyana, according to a re- A large rock completely covered after being taken to the place where ing.
the body was found, although the. It is stated that disturbances result French police had pleled up
policemen, fired pistol shots, As... a on to Germany-Reuter,
|port from Chungilang, are subject to his battered face, N
Marks of injuries on the lower presence of the large rock on his in blood circulation have again cartridge cases which were dealtered
constant reide by these partimnego |
To the sail of the Cast part of the abdomen and on the torso; head indicates that it was used to
occurred, but no official com- in the street for examination indicated that the man had put up a commit the final crime of murder.
Hallway along the formereng terriño štrunda before he had been The man has not yet been identi.munication has yet been issued. Two French polloemes were badly slurred and sent to hospital,»United overpowers: Pfand sied.
There will be no Ten Danos as the a Kizashamol to play "on Prel
Hongkong Hotel to day, EzLU DIPEN
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found,
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