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SHANGHAI SENSATION..

THE ATROCIOUS ATTACK ON MISS FRIEDA FROMMEL.

FURTHER DETAILS.

HONG KONG IMPORTS.

FORTNIGHTLY REPORT OF HONG KONG GENERAL, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The fortnightly price current and market report of the Hong Kong General imports, statos:- Chamber of Commerce, dealing with

The Y.-C. Daily News to hand has the following on the atrocious attack on Miss

Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Frieda Frommel, briefly referred to a Goods:-No sales for forward delivery" few days ago by Reuter's Agency:-

Are reported but stock cargo of all kinds is being disposed of at very low prices. One of the mos; ghastly attempts to Deliveries are injure or take the life of a foreign quotations are those of the 17th inst

slightly better. Latest woman in Shanghai by a servant, was Eg. Saxel. 15.00d. "Mid. Amer. Spot perpetrated shortly after midnight yes- | 4.90d. terday (November 17) when a former boy-cock employed by Miss Frieda From- mel, living at 93, Avenue Joffre, is alleged to have stolen into her house and slashed her seven times with a knife.

Cotton Yarn:-Market has been ex tremely quiet and there is nothing fresh to report Prices have weakened further, Quotations are purely nominal:-No. She has been taken to the Country Hos 10s. 8143/170. No. 19: $150/170. No. pital where the wounds were sown up.

168 8170/175, No. 90s. 8180/183, Ar- Reports last night were to the effect that rivals 1,900 bales. Shipments . Sales she is getting along as well as could be. Unsold stock 14,000 bales. Bargains expected and is in po danger of losing her life..

Miss Frommel is a teacher of music and languages and for several years has had a studio in Shanghai. In the course of the attack the tendons on the two middle fingers of both her hands were completely severed and physicians at the hospital say that it will be months before she will be able to straighten her fingers, if ever, and that she will never be able to play aa she once did.

In addition to the cats on her fingers Miss Frommel reveived one cut at the base of the neck, two on the back, one across the wrist, one on the chest and one across the knee..

From the facts to hand yesterday, it is learned that the servant was discharged some time ago and on leaving probably took the key to the house. In this way he is said to have entered the house at about midnight while his former em ployer and her servants were in bed and stole to her room.

A Demand for Money, From this time onward the facts are rather hazy even in the mind of Miss Frommel. One report, which seems the most logical, is to the effect that the boy on entering her room, woke her up and demanded 8200. She is said to have told him that she did not have so much in the house, but told him to bring her purse, which was lying on a table near by. When he went for the purse she is supposed to have reached for the bell to call her servants.

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The man, when he saw this, evidently pulled out the knife and stabbed her while she was lying in bed. She was able, however, to get from the bed, but only after he had given her a nasty wound. In attempting to guard herself sho reached and held the knife, only to have it pulled from her hand, thus causing the slashes across ber Angers

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13,500 bales.

Woollens: Nothing fresh to report Raw Cotton:-No business to report. Metal:-Market dull, very little doing, Flour Market:Stocks: about 400,000 bags of all sorts. Market has weakened and prices have declined. Quotations American Patent, 84.40.50 per suck; American Straight, $3.55-3.70 per sack: American Cut of 83.60-3.70 per sack; Shanghai Flour, 83.45 per sack; Cana dian Cut off, $3.40-3.45 per sack; Cana- dian Straight, 83.35-3.40 per sack; Canadian Mixture, 93.10-3.30 per sack; Canadian 2nd Clear, 83.00-3.10 per sack

Sugar:-Market quiet. Saltpetre:-Demands still continues

for over 15 per cent. refraction.

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE:

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· CLOSING · QUOTATIONS.

NOVEMBER 22ND, 1920. Bangkong Bank .......................5.1,170 bug.

Do., London.£118 nom. Chartered Bank bays Mercantile Bank, A. & B....229) sum.

Do..

0......£13. um. P. & O. Bank.

.....94 bay. Fat Ans Baat ................................. nom. Canton Insurance...600 bay. Chins Underwriters ................................... Nerth Uhina insurance .......

$1.45 BAL 15. 115 non Union larracce

997 sal, de sa Yangtze insurance

...Mex. $65 bay. Uhina Firo izsurance .......................$200 buy. Eungkang Fire insuran J017, buy. Donyisses**************

H. & M. Samboats...$? zom. Hongkong Tags, Indo-Chins (Pref.)

Do. (DOL), Shell

1 Transporta Star Farmi- Clima Sugars Wsterbosta Malabon ngara bengue... haiian Mining A..... Langisi (combined) Do. (angle) Shanghai rporations..

Finally feeing herself, she was able to get into the middle of the room where she turned over a table and by running round this, was able to protect herself until the footsteps of a servant were heard on the stairs outside.

Baobr**** 19 tavas On hearing the fighting the servant! Ural Caspians

Trench Mines ran from the house, but the sounds of his footsteps caused the intruder also to K&K Wharfa... ocase molesting Misa Frommel. He also W. Docks

H.K. ran from the house. Panic-stricken Mies Frommel ran down the stairs and from Shanghai Looks.

New Engineerings... the house and succeeded in arousing HKS Hotels neighbours, who took her into their home and called the French police and Hongkong Realty Hongkong Lands physician.

$32 buy. bay.

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27

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TH 27 200.

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Th. 9 non

...tg now

20%- bay. „8/- now.

$123 col.

$59 nom „Tia. 175 nom.

als. 6.50 pom. 1. 128 nom.

191 kay. Ik ai.

$8.15

buy.

$4 sci

mel

nom.

sit num Tis, 10.13 sel

Tia, 3.10 Bel

.K. Tertitorial Possible Mental Unbalance.

Humphreya states Regarding the motive for the crime,

Prince's

Buildings.... it is possible that it was to obtain money. Ewo Cottons....

Bural Landry. However, the purse was found lying on Urientala the bed, the assailant perhaps being too

Bhanghai excited in trying to escape to tako it

bój bar. Cottons (old) It is barely possible that the motive China Buses...

Do.

(new)....Tia. 981 buy. might have been revenge for dismissal,

.......Tis. 91 buy. but in such a case he would, had he had Peak Tram (old)

hongkong Tramways ...32415 buy,, 24.30 sa. any criminal incentive, have struck with

Boy (now) the knife while Miss Frommel.

#48 Singapore Fractions asleep. In this connection, it is the Tax general opinion that the man did not Amusements comeza strike to kill. It is also possible that Canton 1064

the man was mentally unbalanced at the Gements (combined) time.

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The house in which Miss Frommel lives

Do

(old) ....... ng, (now)..

*****$15 nom. *******$7.00 nom.

15/01

...............$151 bay. ......$5 nom.

alt som.

..$ nom! is situated in a small compound about China Laghts (combined)$19 25 yards froin Avenue Joffre. It is a

Do (old). ...$141⁄2 nom. · Do.

$11 nom three-storey, structure and Miss From-

(new) Chips Providenta mel's studip is on the second floor. Until

..351 buy. Construction.ne recently the ground and first floor have been occupied, but are now unfurnished,

Dairy Farma. Dar & Wings Miss Frommel being left alone in the house at the time of the incident.

Hongkong filectrics... Macao Electrics *K Bopas (combined). Do. (old)

(now). Lane Crawfords....... Mackintosh... Biocarea

GERMAN ENTERPRISE IN RUSSIA

DIFFICULTIES WITH THE SOVIET

Various German undertakings in Soviet Russia are understood to be making little progress owing to the diff culty of dealing with the Soviet, authori- ties, writes "the Berlin correspondent of the Times. The difficulties with which the Siemens Company has to contend in carrying out its cóntract for the construc- tion of an electric underground railway in Moscow are reported to be so great that the American interests which are financing the undertaking have expressed the desire to obtain release from the con tract even at a loss, a desire which, af the stage now reached, appears to have little chance of being gratified.

The negotiations between the German Dye Trust (LG. Farbenindustric) and the Ruegertorg" (Russian-German Trading Company) for the grant of a three years chemical monopoly in Soviet Russia have not yet gone beyond the preliminary stage. Reports published in Berlin to the effect that the Dye Trust in about to establish stores in Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkoff, and other towns and to send technical experts to reorganize the Russian technical industry are stated in official circles to be at least premature. Difficulties have arisen in the negoti tions between the Dye "Trust and the Soviet company which make it doubtful whether it will be possible to proceed with the scheme at all

United Asbestos Watsons (old), mian Wm. Powsila................ Telephones

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$19

BOND.

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$614 bay.

$35 nom

$10 sel

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EXCHANGE RATES.

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Rugay, November 21st.

129**** 34.881

Paris Brussels

Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen. Vienn Heldagfors Lisbon

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Stockholm Oilo Prague Madrid Bio

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20.43

18.204

34.39 1921

2.17/32 454 2/5.

2/0.9/22

4.84.15/16

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183

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DUDLEY'S NEW PROPERTY..

́ ́591 ACRES AND PRIORY RUINS.

અંત

IN HONOUR OF VOLTA.

NEW ITALIAN STAMP TO BE ISSUED.

HOME

Dudley Town Council has purchased from the Earl of Dudley the Friary Estate of 521 acres for £17,000. It is principally To commemorate the centenary of agricultural land, and the price is a litle | Alessandro Volta-the Italian physicist less than £150 an acre. The estate, in- whose researches and discoveries in cludes a magnificent mansion, the Priory electric properties have identified his Hall, where successive agents to Lord name with that universally applied to an Dudley have resided, while near by are accepted unit of electromotive force, the the ruins of the old Benedictine monas Fascist Government has decided to issue tery, founded in the twelfth century next year a series of special stamps with The castle and extensively wooded appropriate designs. The artist, Pro- heights at the back of the estate have fessor Cisari, to whom the commission been leased to the town for ninety-nine. has been given, is now engaged in pre years at a peppercorn rent.

The council propose the construction of author his sketches for submission to the limit will be put on the a garden city of 3,000 houses, with social number of impressions, but this reatric- amenities, at a cost of nearly £2,000,000; | tion of their philatelic value will hot: and the scheme will form the basis of a minimise their worth as an artistic series Greater Dudley, half the had being in worthy to recall the debt of science to the area of an adjoining authority.

authorities.

a great Italian.