A ganner's mate from the United States cruiser New York is under arrest at Hongkong charged with murder. The man ie alleged to have entered house oceapied by 8 young Japanese near Bowrington Path by the verandah on the night of Septer-As of the man with a child in his arms. He at once ordered the father to get out of the house. The latter naturally objected whereupon the American is alleged to have caught him by the shoulder and fang him and the child as well down a small fight of stairs, hurling " lighted lamp strack the burst together on the stairs, Here they were Inter found by a Earopean, and removed to hospital, The child was very badly burned and also sustained " fractured shall. The little thing could nat rossbly live and died soon after admi The father is still in hospital bat his i ajares not severe, chiefly consisting of som nasty bruises and s few slight huras.
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