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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1928.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL. Telegraphic Addrona: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE, HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL, Talographio Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lita, Peking,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bod Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Bods, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

TEA DANCES:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all steamers.

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be bad at the Office of the above Hotel), Dinner Dances Tuesday and Saturday 8 to 12 a.m.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Tel. Add:-"Victoris." Telephone C. BY8

HOTELS OF

Manager.

DISTINCTION

MISSIONARY SHOT KWANGSI DROUGHT SUPREME COURT

IN COLD BLOOD.

MR. R. F. BLOMDAHL OF SWEDISH ALLIANCE.

MURDERED IN MIDNIGHT RAID BY BANDITS.

ANXIETIES.

FAILURE OF RICE MAY CAUSE FAMINE.

DEVELOPMENT DELAY.

The Imminent prospect of famino conditions in Kwangsi, as the result of the summer drought which has affected southern China as a whole, is giving Chinese offi-

SHANSI INN OUTRAGE.cials serious concern...

Mr. R. F. Blomdahl, of the Swedish Alliance Mission, was murdered in cold blood by a gang of bandits at an inn situated be- tween Kwelhwachen and Fengehen, Shansi province, on October 4, according to information reaching Hongkong from Shanghai this morning.

Recent coples of the Wuchow and other Kwangal newspapers, says our Nanning correspondent in a letter received this morning. contain notices in bold-faced type calling on the people of the dif- forent districts to conserve all food supplies and to plant addi- tional foodstuffs wherever pos-

sible.

ROBBERY.

FORCED ENTRY INTO

CLERKS' ROOM. ·

MESSENGER LOSES $200 AND A JACKET.

WINDOW PANE CUT OUT

Sometime during the week-end a thiof succeeded in gaining admit- tance to the room used by clerks to the Attorney General, on the second floor of the Supreme Court. After forcing the lock of a drawor with a screw-driver, they atole $200 in money and a jacket, the property of Ng Cheung, a mes. All over the province it is re-senger boy to the Attorney Mr. Blomdahl and another mis-ported that the second crop of rice General. ionary, Mr. K. A. F. Anderson, has failed, and it is a matter for were attacked by the bandits as serious consideration that at this they lay asleep at the inn, and time of the year, it has been neces- after they had been robbed of allsary to commence importation their possessions, one of the Rice prices are mounting daily, bandits placed his pistol to Mr. and as the exchange rate in be- Blomdahl's heart and shot him coming more adverse, an effort is dead, Mr. Anderson escaped, but being made to curtail exports to an the inn keeper and two or three absolute minimum., Chinese staying there were also shot after having been robbed.

Cold Blooded Murder. Mr. Blomdahl in company with Mr. Anderson from sa Ratsl, was proceeding to # new station. Leaving Knei Hua Cheng, they had

day and decided to put up for the night at one of the wayside inus. They camped down with a number

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Monthly from $125.00

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MEE CHEUNG

Studio, Ico House St.

Branch 7, Beaconsfield Arondo,

The plans for provincial deve Jopment are likely to be interfer- cd with if the famine occures. A complete system of new roads have been planned, and even avia- tion is contemplated. Represen tatives of the Aviation Division of the Nationalist Army have al- ready chosen a suitable site for an aerodrome at Yung Hui, a few miles above Wuchow. This will be a link in the chain of fields

of Chinese in one of the two rooms | radiating from Canton. Other of the fun, and some time after fields are to be located at Shiu midnight were awakened. Shots Hing (now under way) Kwai Uen wore fired and one of the Chinese and Nanning. These schemes feli dend as the robbers smashed may be considerably delayed if their way into the room.

famine conditions prevail.

The robbers then demanded all the money and valuables of all in

PRIZE-GIVING, AT V.R.C.

TOO MANY HARBOUR RACES.

the house, flourishing their pistols, and they took away from Mr. Blohmdahl and Mr. Anderson what little money they ́possessed and also their watches and other valuables. Then the dreadful cold-blooded murder occurred. Deliberately aiming his plstol, one

That there are too many Harbour of the bandits shat Mr. Blomdahl

races nowadays and that there through the heart and he fell should be an understanding between dead on the spot. In the general | the various bathing clubs to hold only scramble for safety which follow-ono event of this naturo la futuro ed, Mr. Anderson escaped, but two years, was the gist of a speech made or three of the Chinese were shot by Mr. C. J. Cooke at the prize distri- dead by the bandits, before the button at the Victoria Recreation Club latter made off.,

on Saturday night.

Shock for Young Bride.

The distribution of prizes won nt the V.R.C. sports and at the two Har bour races did not draw many people Mr. Anderson conveyed the body to the V.R.C. on Saturday. There by cart to Kuci Hua, and then was n mengre attendance, most of wired to Feng Chan for Mr. Blom-those present being prize-winners, and dahl's young bride who was pros-even amongst these there were many

absentees. trated by the shock of the news.

Mr. W. Logan, in a short speech Mrs. Blomdahl was staying with prior to the distribution, mentione! her mother, Mrs. Hill of Fenght four records, had been lowered Chen, and was married only reçent-this year. He took the opportunity to ly,

thank the donors of prizes and aald that but for their kindly interest much of the success of the sport would not have been nekieved.

The prize winners were as follows: Half Mile Championship of ↑ the Colony, R. Jolinstone and C. J. Cooke (dend heat). Time: 13 mins Zaben.

The Swedish - missionary had been in China about six years, and it was his intention next year, to take his young wife to Sweden on furlough where his father, mother and sisters reside. Those who knew him state that he was an ideal up-country man and was Time: 41.2-bseca. well-known and very much liked by 100 Yards Back Stroke Champion- the Chinese in the interior where ship

Shui-man, Leung his missions took him as he moved | 75,2-5secs.—a record. from village to village.

Succession of Murders,

100 Yards Championship: D. Lyon,

Time:

220 Yards Championship of the Colony D. Lynn. Time: 2 mins. 38.2-baccs. Previous racord time: 2 mins. 34.1-Escc8.

100 Yards Breast Stroke Champlon- ship: Wan Kwong-Ling. Time: 78.2-ben.→ record.

150 Yards Handicap for Members: M. Remedios. Time: 1 min.

65.1-Execs.

The locality where he was mur- dered has a very bad name for banditry and this is the third time that marders have been perpetrat- ed in the village during the last two months. Mr. Blomdahl had performed a fine work in building up the mission at Siang Chang and it was only four months ago that he volunteered to take over the 100 Yards Boys' Championship: work at the station he was on the 1. Amery, Time: 72.1-Users. way to visit when he met his death.

U.S. ORIENTAL BAN.

CHURCH CONGRESS AGAINST INTERFERENCE.

Washington, Oct. 25. The house of deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church, by a vote of 357 to 76, to-day defeat ed a resolution protesting against "discrimination" against Oriental nations in the American immigra- tion and naturalization laws,

The House of Bishops adopted the resolution yesterday after the deputies had fabled it overal days ago on the ground that it was political.

Declaring emphatically that "It's

100 Yards Ladies' Championship: Miss D. George, Time: 91.1-5sces.

440 Yards Championship: C. J. Cooke, Time: 5 mins, 40secs,

Considerable mystery surrounda the affair, but it would appear that the theft was committed by someone familiar with the Interior of the building and the place where the money was kept.,

this morning by a Telegraph re- According to enquiries made presentative, the door of the room was locked, and a window, opening on to a level section of the roof, was closed, with a bar placed into position across it on the Inside. Outside this window are the usual typhoon shutters which had also; been closed and bolled.

Glass Cut Out,

It was found this morning that

the door was unlocked, the window typhoon shutters were wide open,

neatly removed. This glass had and a complete section of glass been taken out by cutting away the wood. The glass and wood were taken to another spot a short dis- tance away and placed, in a dust- bin.

After entering the room the thlef evidently forced the lock of a drawer with ǹ perew-driver. Inside the drawer was a tin box: and key, the former containing the

It was then በክ money,

easy matter to open the box and take the money. Nothing else was touched, although in another drawer there was a sum of petty. cash.

Another Attempt, Further enquiries revealed the fact that an attempt had been made to cut out a similar section

in

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occupied by the Assistant Crown Solicitor, which is situated four rooms away from the room from the money was taken. which

n length of From that window wood had been taken off and then, apparently the thief gaye up in the attempt..

The most puzzling factor in the cane is how the thief made his entrance. The unlocked door aug- gests that a key was used, in which ease the robber seems to have cut the glass and opened the typhnon | shutters as a "blind." In support of this it appears to be impossible! for the typhoon shutters to bei opened from the outside, which must have been done had the man entered through the hole left when the glass was removed. It may have been his intention to relock the door when leaving but to have forgotten to do so.

After a Key?

Regarding the attempt to enter the room of the Assistant Crown Solleftor, it appears that a' lava- tory key, which sits the lock of; the burgled room, was left on a chair in the Assistant Crown Soli-

citor's room, which was locked. It would therefore seem that the man's effort to enter this room was to guin possession of the key, which was found untouched on the chair 100 Yards Team Raco Champion- this morning. If this was the ship: J. R. Johnstone, D. Lyon, S. V. man's aim, he must have found Gittins, L. R. Pereira, C. 3. Cooke, some other means of unlocking the W. F. Kerr. Time (combined): 0 door and consequently did not mina. 39.2-Gaces,

waste any more time in trying to secure the key.

Long Plunge:-0. J. Cooke, Dis.: tance: 07 foot.

Throwing the Polo Ball:-D. Lyon, Distance: 69ft. Gins.

100 Yards Consolation Race: W. F. Kerr, Time: 09.3-5secs.

Ladies' Harbour Ilace: Miss Kwok Chol-ming. Time: 35 mins, 47.2-5secs, Open Harbour Raco: C. J. Cooke, Time: 28 mins. 36.3-5accs.

GASOLENE AND OIL ACCOUNT.

MOTOR DRIVER DENIES LIABILITY.

The question as to whether a not the business of the Christian man ordered gasolene and lubri- church to control Governments," rating oil on his own behalf or for the bishops, in a pastoral letter

a firm was a disputed point in the read at the close of the general Summary Court this morning, be- convention, called upon the church to put its "moral force cinim for the payment of balance fore Mr. Justice Jacks, when a behined the effects for peace and a law-governed world. In ad- of money was heard.

dion to its plea for peace, tho letter called upon the churches to find a common ground of worship

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