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THE MURDER OF A CONCUBINE.

BELIEVED TO BE WIFE'S REVENGE.

NEPHEW ON TRIAL.

The gruesome" wurder commit- ted at the Chak Un village near the Shu Tin Gap on April 6, was re- called before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing, when two Chinese were charged with wilfully killing the concubine of a dairyman of the village.

Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith appeared for the Crown, the defendants being norespresented.

FRIDAY,

APRIL 29.

1927.

20 REDS EXECUTED AT PEKING.

(Continued from Pago 1.)

CAUSE OF THE "SPLIT."

Alleged Personal Animosity.

Shanghal, Apr. 28. The Shanghai Chinese news- papers are now saying that the Kuomintang split, between Mor- shal Chang Kai-shek and the Han- kow elique, le duc not so much to Marshal Chiang's opposition to the Soviet Government, but to his personal animosity against Com- rade Borodin.

Opening his case, Mr. Whyte- Smith said that as the domestic! adais of the dairyman had a There is no change in the material bearing on the case, it was Shanghal situation, but it in re- necessary to recall events which ocported that two seroplanes have curred some time back.

been scot from the Hung Jau Aerodrome to Nanking by rail- Nuval Wireless,

Three years ago, the man lived with his hit fat wife and a coneu- hine at Young Tsai Po, Kowloon City, which was one mile from Chuk Un.

""PROTECTION" FOR JAPAN?

Mr. Chen's Alleged Offer.

London. April 28.-

The dairy man possessed a veget- able garden at Yeung Tsal Po but carried

Chuk on business at

Domes- Un, where he kept cows,

In the House of Gummóns, Sir tie trouble crept into the man's Frederick Hall asked for infornia- affairs, the kit for wife and the tion as regards "the offer Mr. concubine being unable to agree, | Eugene Chen made to Japan agree- and a separation was made. Heng not to interfere with the erected a matshed at Chuk Un Japanese Concension at Hankow, where the concubine and her and undertaking to suppress all daughter had lived ever since their anti-Japanese agitation in China," differences, while the kit fat wife and whether steps would be taken remained at Young Tsai PC.

to secure similar protection for British interests,

The man himself spent most of his time at the dairy and was only erassionally at the let fat wife, place. Pence again reigned in the two households, the dairyman himself staying ai Chuk Un with his concubine and the kit fat wife at Young Tsai Po with her nephew, the first defendant, who was em- ployed at the garden.

An Invitation to Dinner, On April 6, the first defendant met the second accused, who was employed

the duiry and

Was returning from deliver ing milk. The second defen- dant was entrusted with a message to the master, inviting him to the kit fut wife's house for dinner. Although he had never be jure received such an invitation during the whole three years of the separation, the dairyman came to the conclusion that, it being the Ching-Ming festival, a speelal din- her was being given..

Mr. G. Locker Lampson replied that he had no knowledge of any such offer,

Sir Frederick fall said he would bring the information.-Router.

BRITISH CABINET MEETS.

Powers Still Discuss Nanking.

London, April 28.

There was a special meeting of the Cabinet in the Premier's room of the House of Commons yester- day evening, which heard a report. by Sir Austen Chamberlain on the situation in China, particularly from the diplomatic viewpoint.

The Powers' reply to Mr. Chen's Note on the matter of the Nanking putrages la still under discussion between the Powers concerned.--- Reuter.

Y.M.C.A. SPECIAL FUND.

His concubine not having been invited, he went alone to his veget- able garden. After dinner, the Shanghai Work Well Supported. party retired early.

Referring to events which subse- questly occurred at the dairy, Mr. Whyte Smith said that at about 11.330 that same night, two coolies heard the little girl shouting. On Investigating they found the con- rubie lying on the floor with a number of cuts on her belly. A re- port. was at once made to the hus- band, who before returning to the dairy went to the Police.

Woman Badly Hacked.

On the way to the mashed the Police at once arrested the first. defendant. The woman was found to be in a terrible condition, and two blood-stained choppers were picked mi She was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital, and on hopes of her recovery being aban- dod by the medical officers. dying depositions were taken. The first defendant was prested for identification, and he was picked out aq, being one or two men who had altacited the woman.

London, April 28.

The Council of the Y.M.C.A. in Tandon has received an anonymous cheque "to provide a corner of Honte for our men, in the British hespital" at Shanghai.

A special fund on behalf of which Sir Arthur Yapp has appealed, to cover the work of the Association in

Shanghai, i now nearly £7,000. The London Stock Exchange has given £1,015.-Renter.

BELGIAN INTERESTS.

Brussels Policy Approved.

Brussels, April 28, The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber has unanimously approved all the measures taken by the Belgian Government in China.

;

Mr. Van der Velde made a state- ment declaring that the policy agreed upon by the Government The concubine sucrumbed to her was in accordance with the sug- injuries the following day, and acestions of the Minister at Peking, cording to the post mortem examin- ripresentative of the ranjor Bel- ation death was due to shockin interests in China, especially with a view to safeguarding the cated by the multiple injuries.

The first defendant was found to persons and property of Belgian have several abrasions on his bands nationals.--Rester.

and hers, and in his jacket porket a piece of blood-stained paper was fond, while blocal-stained clothes wore discovered by the Poliëe in his quarters.

The second defendant was arest-

THE CIVIL WAR.

Northern Win in Anhui Writing on April 21, our Shan-

er in a house in Shanghai. Stres,ung correspondent states: and he was also found to be suffer- ing from slight abrasions.

The be

that the

WAN

WWI

wife the

to

There has not yet been report- ed any really decisive battle be- of the Crown

tween the Northern allied army defendants two employed by the kit f and the Nationalist force in North Anbui, but it was stated yester- enumit the murder, day that the 11th Army Corps motive being Jealousy. under command of Wang Han- The Crown's theory was borne out. minz has already captured Shou- continued Mr. Whyte-Smith, by the chow about 120 miles worth west subsequent disappearance of the

of Nanking). This afterwards kit fat wife.

Formal evidence was taken, and proved to be unauthenticated. The real situation in that Shou- the case was aljourned.

chow is still under occupation by the Nationalist force, and the Northern allied troops advanced as far as Shing Yide, which is about 10 and odd li from Shou- chow.

HOSPITAL COMFORTS.

LATEST CONTRIBUTION,

However, it has been ascertain- The Committee begs to acknow-ed that north of the River Husi, ledre, with thanks, contributions all Nationalist forces have dis- as below.

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