Another fatal motor accident occured this week, the victim being a Chinese. At 11 am, on Wednesday motor-car number' 3327, owned by Mr. F. G. Cousins, ap American citizen residing at Bank Chambers, Broadway, when near rth Kiangse Road bridge, on the orth Soochow Road collided with and knocked down a Chinese who was walking along the road in the same direction in which the car was travelling. The injured man was at once removed in the car to St. Luke's Hospital! where, upon examination by the doctor, life was pronounced extinct. The body "as removed to the Morruary to await the inquest and the chauffeur was detained in custody pending the result of the inquest. The accident was witnessed by the deceased's son but not by the police.
At the inquest on Thursday a ver-diet was brought in that death was the result of a collision with motor-car No, 3327 driven by a Chinese chauffeur, the chauffeur to be detaiped pending criminal proceedings to be brought against Tap Salt Commissioner Dr. Lew Yuk-lin, has instructed the salt merchants to pay a month's salt tax in advance in order to raise funds to pay the Navy, the pay of which is in arrears by $600,000. This is reported by the Canton Times," which also states that, being -in need of necessary funds to meet military expenses, Mu Yunghsien requested the Civil Administration to withdraw the $4,000 reserved for the expenses of Uctober 10, the National Holida: oth anniversary of the Repubi This ig certainly a more open way than that of Peking, which announced that the money saved on the Republican celebrations would go to famine relief.
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