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FLAT.

DEAD OFFICER'S LOVE

LITTERS.

Major Chaney and a lady whom

you as merely a girl to be spoken to| and toyed with.'

Another letter, dated August 10th, 1917, stated.

Miss

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THE CHINA MAIL

DAY OF THE TRAGEDY, She left the flat on the morning of the tragedy and went to work, she sald. She understood Major Chaney was going to remain at home with his mother. She returned about 2 o'clock, and was surprised to find he was out.

MAMMOTH OIL RESERVOIR THE SHANGHAI HARBOUR

ADMIRALTY'S STORAGE OF

80,000,000 GALLONS.

60,000,000 gallons, the Admiralty's With the enormous capacity of new aitfuel reservoir has been com- pleted at Rosyth

The reservoir, which is to be used

QUESTION.

A VITAL MATTER FOR CHINESE TRADE AND SHIPPING

The For Easter Reviews for day

Dilys

report

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58200

MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919.

The Sent to the Shanghai con towards foreign pooples, there will atunity of any effective scheme will fafter a few years be The consulerable, and is may be laid volumno of goods coming to and fear- an igamenes down as an axis that, coptrary to fing China. If these goods como and much Chinese belief, whatever betego from the present ports in their fits the forvigmer in China also bene- present condition they will be sub, jako chinese Government why, have impediment, which will not owur if fits the Chinese. Those members off to may external charges and

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"My own, my only love-God bless you. Good-bye. I shall not trouble you to come to me on Satur: day. Always think of me as your A dramatic account of the events Harry. Please take the fullest ad which led up to Major H. E. Chaney, vantage of your holiday until Men- when he entered the flat he did not He returned about 5 o'clock but BA.F. shooting himself with a re day."" volver, after seriously wounding his "

take any notices of his mother or for the storage of fuel for H.M. shine under the caption Can Shargharnierce will dbubbles, be much inter-ranke in China and if it is properly In the September issue of last year knowledge of the magnitude behina has a first-cluse port of its own. mother, in a London fiat, was given suffering

end bearing of international com. Shubhghat is the heart of maritiane Dressed in black, and apparently herself, and looked rather strange in the Firth of Forth, is built of con- & World Harbour?" we pub- at the resumed inquest by Miss Elizabeth Tobin gave her evidence habit to kiss his mother and herself being the bed of the sandstone quarry aired for the bags Corney prince feature of national and posts with att entwil windom not to.

acute distress, and worried. It had always been bis crete on a rock foundation, the site is an astruct of the report prenent of Shanghai Harbour. Tobin, employed at the Air Ministry, in a halting manner between frequent when he came home.

fested in any soberg for the improve.devedeed, in with hip the whole who lived at the fat with Major sobs...

known as. Howe Cove, from which Bound on the possible future develop and importance is that the existence be lespised that if a mas masters Chaney.

The entry. The Confucian oluncios teli She said she was a clerk in the said to her, "Did you leave work of building the new dockyard.

Shortly afterwards the deceased stone was quarried for the purpose ment of Shanghai Thi of see a port will kelp China free his art he enles hauself, ruling The first witness was Charles employ of the Air Ministry and had early?" and she replied, "Yes.. Pearce, head porter at Talgarth-man known Major Chaney a little over I had a headache, and went to of construction for oil reservoirs of ly which represents the shipping prosperity. If no such port exists, sense he says all hrauni de ja The use of concrete as a material Conservancy Consultative kind, the abling China to safeguan its nationalen ere aidoning circle until in a commanated by the of specific foreign control thus einelt he muke his surroundings in sions, where Major Chaney lived. two years. She met him at Hythe. He described finding a lady, who was injured on the secord landing, and know he was married at first until Oh, but you should not have yards, and the rock excavated was pie bedies. It will he remember Japanese. This will render it-atpost China las ven stimulated for the

Witness continued:

lie down after lunch." He looked large size is a novelty. The amount interests of the port, to the various "I did not at her, very strangely and said. deposited totalled about 98,500 cubic Chambers of Commerce and other Alajor Chaney lying on his face on was too late, and when I found out headaches." As a rule he was very upwards of 300,000 cubic yards.

its functions will be usurped by with TUMUS the next landing. Witness picked wanted to keep away from him.worried and concerned about her! The area occupied by the reservoir report

some adjacent foreign part, probably teen industrial developmens of up a revolver.

He left Hythe and he asked me to go when she had a headache. "I began and surrounding roadway, pipe track, sury "ta investigate all the various bax on the bulk of the Chinese trade, in partiular wind in proporsion as fel that the timin concision of this impossible for Chinese shipping to truputation facilities in and to the with him, and I refused. He then to cry?" added witness, "and left the etc., is 11 acres, and the roof area te ish Harboe Fritid At the present time abnost u the these are cupitated so will interl was that it was urgently news develop, and will prove a considerablé tresty ports in general and Shanghai he knew as Mrs. Chaney had been said to me that if I would not go he room. After a little time he came to 7 acres. living at the flat since August 4th would shoot himself and me. 1917

came "en the understanding that I said, 'You are cross with me, son. was carried out by pumping sal:been beking all be created.

me and asked me why I was crying, Major Gilbert Myers, R.A.F., who was to keep myself in every way and He said, "Oh, you should not be hav-water into it from the Firth of Forth Various cheres were mooted, the parts about a million of the people,made that in adventing the develop

The final testing of the reservoir inte pry, which les prosly its way into Chinese bands and sp

of Shanghai so that a dinnerie at Shanghai crentally finds development "noosferate. also resides in the Mansions, descrited pay all my own expenses. We Eved ing headaches. You know mother is at the rate of 4,000 gallons per two main afternatives of deep draft and in the event of a foreign portment of Shanghai foreigners are in cw he heard the firing and ran to very happily, and I helped him with disgusted" He then locked round, minute by means of a suction dredger access via the Yangtze or the Hangi, many of these woult be ruined grins which will fall to them as the The accusation wril naturally be Ae Rai. Beside the body of Major his books," proceeded the witness, and, seeing his mother standing at outfit and a temporary pipe line show ng underlying all, but i was China's foreign trade is about one result." Chan was

Webley service bursting into tears. A couple of the door, said to her. "What are you 24in. in diameter and 2,400 feet in flourly stated that no decision was thousand milling Heiken Tacks per nese statesmen hold that foreign serving the same purposes as Shung, luenced purely by the pecuniary sevolver.

times I asked him to let me live by listening for?" His mother said, length. with Major Chaney in his work, He said if ever I went he would and be then told her to mind her oNE, NAs witness was about to leave the pressul ma strong an approval of the ores one hundred million Ha kwaning she ancient culture without any

"I was very closely associated myself, as it troubled me very much." You should not worry the girl,"!

possible without the closest enquiryaman and Dearly one-third of this intence which (part from acti

The more conservative Chi; witness told the coroner. He used follow me and shoot himself. Once business.

A sufficiens puber of the mere is bafilled through Shanghai. The diplomacy) enter through the traty to come into the Air Ministry and fat home we were very happy, and I speak as it he bad been dreaming, or said, "Oh, sen, can't you let me go strangely

Major Chaney was looking very witness box, she broke down comhain idea as to mirant the Cong Tuck per annum which is cerainly benefit to Chins. The most persen. important folies appmesed ex coastwise trade in Chinese goodsports has only the effect of destroy- as if he had hallucinations. I believe and live by myself, because it is had

He pletely and had to be assisted out of faultative Board in the opinion that an appreciable fraction of the where (mistic point to the steady deteriora he was the first man who ever fired troubling me terribly?" He said, believed Amachine-gun in the air and it was If ever you leave me I will shoot he handed it to his mother, saying the police, whilst at a nursing home be undertaken at once, and the . The effect of an impreme in the "sea-hosts" and cre confident

parcel which she court.

Arather nerve-racking sort of experi-you and myself, because you mean:"Here you are, mother." His mother and read in court, Miss Tobin said neer-in-Chief was requested to Be Shanghai's harbour shoult itimately less a process of develision is going

contained fish and In one of her statements made to

the investigation could and should internal trace of the country. tion in China since the advent of investigation. The scheme involved be to reluctans freight on which will gulminate in the less pure a scheme and estimate for the

tubes.

This will be due to three of the many independence. On the other hand, the irritable "seam (2) The reduegd fusk consumption ghosts while they acknowledge that which ours on big stemmes individually they hope ench for his per ton of cargo,

reward, nevertheless believe that co (6) Saving of transhipnies charges penation between rations and the ab a foreign port where the very development of transportation and big ships will stop if Shanghai, commerce cangot but work the is not improvel'.

entarai benefit of nations. A large (c) Cheaper transhipment rates in Shanghai was a large productive Shanghai owing to rapid un-ad constraing China and also a large Jading with better organization local prosperity, for Cirinese even and whart equipment, so reduc.ore than for foreigners. ing the time of detention of

CELLS.

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Detective-Sergeant Steel said that in a wallet taken from deceased's clothing he found a letter and a piece of letter. The letter. which was unsigned, was as follows-

he slept across the door of the flat more than life to me. That night with his revolver, in case I left" would sometimes seem strange and Witress added that Major Chaney complain of his head aching, and akerwards he would not know what be bad been doing.

at his mother.

a

mother. that she was expecting to become a

ness called. She entered the witness of the dead officer, was the last wit Elizabeth Mary Chaney, the widow

tox carrying a baby.

VAUMES :

ceased seemed suddenly to lose con said she did not want it, and de trol of himself and go mad... continued witness," and ran towards

of twenty different combina "He dashed the parcel dewr,"

all the conceivable projects (p surveys for and designs and estimates

his mother, and I think he said 'Let "If I do not get some reassurance

me get her. His mother ran out. Il from you you must expect a visitor,

tious have been evolved by the con for am not going to sit quiet here

She stated that she resided at sulting engineers and the technical hurried forward and said "Ch, don't, Workingham. Her husband, she said, "He said," she continued, "that son. I thought he was going to, had been a very quiet man, but at important of whics are referred to while you go about with a single girl. his head was rever the same years hurt her in some way. She ran into times he was a bit hasty.

staff of the Conservancy, the most You must be the talk of Leyland since he had a bad crash some years the sitting room and he went after Road. I will give you the more ago. Some months ago he got wor-her. When I got to the sitting-room and be was living in London?Yes.

under the heading The Shanghai chance. Then God held your people.ried about his invention. He had I saw a révolver in his hand.".

You were living at Workingham Harbour Question on puga 840 vi Your mother must be an old cat to invented a camera gum and he was The Coroner: Did he carry it living 2-No.

the April issue), and proposed that allow yeu to do such a thing,"

Did you know where he was the results should be submitted to The other letter, said witness, was through..

expecting the money to come with him as a rule-No. He kept He was supporting you?-Ob, yes.ping and harbour specialists from the on international committee of ship- asking for money.

Do you know whether he had let. ( room door.

it in the hallstand outside the sitting. He came down to see me frequently, he countries so that an absolutely The Ccioner, reading from theters from his wife?-Yes, they used

and be wrote every week. tetter: It is like drawing blood from to correspond. He wrote to her every

"I thought I heard his mother say

robiased dec son would be made. a stone to ask you for money."

Oh, don't, and I switched off the the day of the tragedy.

When did you see him last?-OnSo excellent a scheme could not but week. Witness added that on March 3rd

light. Somehow or other his mother!

The second item is probably the Major Chaney, said witness, used got cut of the recm to the landing. Mrs. Chaney said she had written the of the public bodies interested and, most valuable being the general im- public school than ever before. The

receive the approval of the Consulta-most importani. be went to the flat and found several to behave very strangely at times. He ran after her and I heard shots. letter beginning. "If you do not give of the provisions of the 1012 agres-provement in conditions which will waiting lists as the great school are In answer to further questions, tive Board and, having the support animos adungs will seerue, the It is linder to get a boy into a

Various other " letters. One was in a Service enve- One evening as they were going home lope, and was addressed to Miss they saw some little boys playing, that there had teen some little dis-expect a visitor."

The Coroner: It amounts to this, me some reassurance you Tobin, and was marked "Urgent-and Major Chaney took his strick agreement between the mother and

must ment as to future development, it, occur within the distributing and col, swollen, and similar lists have been deliver to room." It contained the and beat them awfully on the legs.her son, and he told her to mind her a somewhat sordid one, but they rancy Board adopted this recom. facilities of that port uro

The coroner said the story was out the investigation. The Conser the developed part of China), if the which used to be glad to fill up.

advised the executive Sourd to carry Jesting area of Shanghai (about half adopted by schools of lesser fame Ineta âge:--

The next day she asked him why he own business ?—Yes. had done it, and he said he did not re-

could not help feeling some sympathy mendation and the investigation bes up-to-late. member anything about it, and that

lived with Major Chaney under There will be a period of my two nection that now that China has a desire for social distinction There with the young woman who bad now actually been

brought "I am afsk states à betul- she was imagining it.

commenced. threats.

It must be realized in this con- from a respect for learning than from master, that this rush arises less The jury returned a verdict of can" only consider the matter in its League of Nations and has generally parents who apply zerer dreamt of years in which the obside public signified her intention of entering the is money about, and many of the suicide during temporary insanity. general beatings.

adopted an attitude of reciprocity public school before."

Dea: Pat-Unless I see you to- might I end my life.-H.

It was dated May 28, 1917. A postscript to another letter to Miss Tobin read: "I am not treating

frequently broke down and wept.

During her evidence witness

beginning "Tear Pat-Unless I see The coroner, referring to the letter you tonight," asked if that was addressed to her, and witness said that it was.

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