The Archive · 1935

FOREIGN WOMAN'S TRAGIC DEATH

Harbin, Jan, 24, Was the foreign woman who died here last Friday of frost-bite the wite lof a Shanghai resident?

This question is being asked here following a report that the woman Jwhose identity had puzzled the authorities, was married to a foreigner who lives in Shanghai.

Suffering from severe frost-bite the woman was found unconscious in Balkansky Street at eight o'clock last Friday morning, clad only int blouse and skirt.

She was taken to hospital, where she died the same day without regaining consciousness.

She Is reported to have been born Russian, but to have acquired British nationality through marriage.

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