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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

August 4, 1939.

CHINA'S INDUSTRIES Dead Hotel Maid: Police

Development Necessary.

For Victory

Interview Six Soldiers

SIX soldiers accompanied C.LD. officers

HINDHEAD.

Dr. S. Y. Wang, formerly chemistry expert to the Ministry of Industries

to Farnham police and lately member of the Supervisory Council of Provincial Industries,

station recently after a parade of several hundred men in Kwanglung, strongly pleaded for as- sistance for the Chinese Industrial Thursley Camp, five miles from hero, in connection with the Co-operatives at the weekly tin of death of 41-year-old Mabel Bundy, staff maid, whose body' was Miss Bundy's home was at Cilve the Hongkong Y's Men's Club yester-found in the grounds of the

Road, Portsmouth. day at the St. Francla Hotel,

chiefly to political strife, After each

An employee of the hotel zaw the

Dr. Wong said that China's indus-Moorlands Hotel, Hindhead. trial backwardness was ascribable Superintendent S. D. Cox, of anck on the ground, and, lifting it, ho successive revolution attempts had the Farnham palice, with Major discovered the body. There was been begun at industriellaation, but Nicholson, Chief Constable of blood on the woman's face and her continual political upheavals mode progress very lardy, If not indeed Surrey, and detectives, motored clothes were torn. Impossible. With the establishment to camp with an elderly

tha

Dr. Eric Gardner, Surrey patholo

st, accompanied detectives to the spot and examined the body.

Detectives inspected the sandy soil

of the present Government, however, woman and two men, it looked as if China had at last settled down to an era of progress As the soldiers drove into camp in and development in many directions. Dren gun carriers after exercises, veneath the pine tree and took casts But even then, it did not speak very they were paraded face to face, in of various footprints. well for the Chinese people that two long lines, still wearing their steel China's Industries were chiefly, cen- lclmets and the new battle dress. tred in the foreign concessions and colonies.

HER FRIEND

The Japanese invasion of China The woman attending the parade had upset all the plans laid down by hand known Miss Bundy, and was with the Government. In Kwangtung her in a local hotel that night before alone, Government factories valued she walked out to her death. at over $100,000,000 were last when the Japanese invaded Canton. How- ever, it had been possible to remove the hotel.

but there they found a further di-;

One of the two men is a barman at

some of the factories to the interior, The three walked in turn down the ficully in store. All the machinery two lines at men, scrutinising their was driven by diesel engines and it faces. Afterwards they were driven was almost Impossible to get adequate to police headquarters at Farnham. supplies of fuel. With Better trans portation facilities too, a far greater number of factories might have been saved.

"I China is to survive this war she must be industrialised as speedily as possible," Dr. Wong sald.

First three men left with defectives. The three others went later. All six remained for severnl hours.

Misa Bundy, short and dark-haired, was found at 0.30 next morning be neath a pine tree near the servants' entrance to the hotel, where she had worked for 18 monhis.

A sack covered the body.

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An employee of Moorlands Hotel sald: "Miss Bundy was quiet and

She had her half-doy cry much liked by the rest of the yesterday.

"Untli seven in the evening she remained in her room, writing letters and reading. Shortly after 7 p.m. she went out for a drink at a nearby hotel.

·

"She was seen in the saloon at 0 p.m. and left shortly afterwards.

"At 10.15 a porter walked down the

then. Mas body was not there servants path to the road, but the Bundy suffered from bad feet and never walked far.'

A report that a man had recently been frightening women in the dis- irlet is being Investigated.

To this end, he thought, no greater

Miss Dundy's father was found work was being done than by the Industrial Co-operatives movement.

drowned in London Docks 24 years ago,

Her sister, Mrs. Ethel Ford, In Hongkong a vast amount of Chin-

Bald: ese capital lay Idle in the banks and

"Mabel was attractive, with dark he hoped the Chinese people here

In her hands was a crushed bunch would do their share in helping on of carnations, which she had bought hair and dark eyes. She looked many this great work whose object was the the night before from a street-seller. years younger than she was." survival of their country and their people.

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