CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927 — Page 35

ENCLOSURE.

Extract from the Hong Kong Zelegraph, 31/3/27

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MURDERS AT $10 EACH.

Shanghai Assassin's Confession.

Shanghai, March 31. Ten dollars a time is the price in Shanghai, of assassination according to evidence in a case just dealt with by the Provisional Court in which a Chinese was con- victed for the murder of a loyal forewoman of a British cotton mill.

Prisoner, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, confessed that he shot the woman at the instance of a prominent member of the General Labour Union who gave him $10 beforehand, promising him a further $10 on the return of the pistol with which he was furnished.-Reuter.