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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1927.

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Shanghai papele to hand give details of a serious shooting affair which is reported to have taken place in Nanking on November ad, the full details of which, owing to the Nationalist censor- ship, had not previously come to hand.

PIXING, Nov. 18th. Pleading that he killed his father because he, mistook him for a black dog whose flesh he wanted to eat, Liu Chun Yuan, aged 90, and sentenced to death in the Tientsin District Court for parri- From reports available (on cide." asked for mercy at the November 26th it appears that, Tientsin High Court in the first 04 that day, the populace were bearing of his appeal against the celebrating the victory of the Nan- verdies of the Lower Court this king armies over Gen. Tang Seng afternoon...

Chi, the Hunanese militarist. A procession was formed by those who took part, and the main streets of the city were fed through, that is not know because reports What exactly happened after differ

The prisoner is a native of. Tiem tain and the only son of a Chinese quack, named Liu Chan Ao. Lin was seized, with an attack of in- sanity, and although he was cured, counsel for the defence argued that he bad never campistely recovered

The father had quite a large practice among the more conserva- tive folk in Tientsil, and although

The processionists, how- ever, proceeded along the road, de monstrating as they went. One re brst on the mob and killed a man port has it that soldiers' fired und a woman hd wounded two other men and four children. An the son earned less than fifty cents in the nico-fined on the spectators ether account states that radicals

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some time, especially as the family had been reduced to two since the death of the mother last year and the marriage of the only daughter this spring.

The first rift in the family lute came last May when the widower fell in love with a woman client After several calls the 60-year old man decided to marry the woman, who readily gave her consent. There was no inarriage ceremony"; what the two did was to take a joint oath that. they became man and wife.

The con was kept completely in the dark until one May day the father brought a strange woman into the household, Liu asked the man who the woman was, but he was told that she was his step mother. On hearing this, Liu again became insane and refused to let the woman remain in the house.

Chained Up And Whipped. The father then whipped him and chained him to his bed, giving him a meat every two days. On the night of the crime, the father went to Liu with a chopper in hand, saying that he must stop his yellings every day and that if he continued to make trouble he would kill him. This was apparently nent to frighten him into sub- mission, for soon the old man went to bed with the chopper under the pillow.

In the dead of the night Liu) woke up and after a struggle suc- Reeded in extricating himself from his fetters. He then searched for a weapon and got hold of a han mer nearby. He dealt the father such a heavy low that his head was broken and he was killed ia-

proval of the celebrations and their support of Gen. Tang, and the re- sult was that a number of people, exactly how many it is not stated,

were killed.

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Stritt martial law was at one enforced and the 'Nanking censor- ship was successful in preventing until they found it convenient to the news from coming to Shanghai make it public.

Local Protests.

As a result of the massacre Shanghai students and Street Unions are rnísing an uproar and meetings were held throughout the Settlement and in Chinese ter ritory.

At the preliminary meeting of the 4th Plenary Kuomintang Con ference held on Thursday, those present, who had sensed the indig nation among the Chinese people, passed a resolution which authoriz ed the despatch of Tan Yen Kni and Tsai Yuan Pei to Nanking. These delegates are to investigate the conditions and make a report to Shanghai.

Members of the local Kuoniu- tang Special Distribe kare poti- tioned Nanking to punish the instigators of the shooting. afternoon the Shanghai Students This Union and other Kuomintang bodies. are students, who will give their ver

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not discovered until late the next morning when a neighbour, intrigued by the can- tinued silence of the house, ap- priched and peeped through the window. To his great amazement and terror he saw the old man lying in a pool of blood, while the son was making a fire and trying to cut flesh from the dead man and cook it.

arrest.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 26th. The Trustees of the Ïester

members of the Committee and Staff gathered in the office of the Medica: Superintendent yesterday to bid goodbye to Dr. and Mrs. Henry Fowler who are leaving for England this morning,

In representing them with a handsome silver salver suitably en graved, Mr. C. M. Bain, chairman of the Hospital said.

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It is with feelings of deep regret. that we have to say Good-bye to Dr. and Mrs. Fowler. Dr. Fow-

Bank Bills, at sight Cooking Human Flesh. ler's professional life has been at

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ever ready to answer a call and to Gola Lar, 100 fine, per tanl... at first. With a revolver in hand, sick and dying, is no Eght taak. the leader of the police went near Dr. Fowler with a charming per- and demanded in a stern voice sonality and a keen constant in- what he was doing. He replied

terest gave of his best soluntarily that he was cooking human flesh. He was immediately placed under at a critical time, when our late to this Hospital. He came to is When he was asked by the Trial taken from us, and no one could esteemed friend Dr. Davenport. was Judge in the District Court why have done more for the Hospital he murdered his father he replied than he did. Dr. Fowler and Mrs. that he mistook him for a black Fowler will both have their names dog lying in his bed and that he was anxious to eat dog meat to Chinese friends alike for all they long remembered by foreign and

Paris satisfy his banger. The court have done during their found him guilty of parricide and sojourn in China. I would take long

New York Brussels sentenced him to death.

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Amsterdam Milan the first hearing was held preparation of plans for our new

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Dr. Fowler in reply thanked Mr. for their gift and gracious words. Bain and friende most sincerely) He wished strongly, to urge upon the Trustees and supporters of the hospital the great need of a Con valescent Home for ambulatory patients. He felt this was of such great importance that he could not say good-bye without laying stress upon it-North China Daily News.

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