Murder. at Officer's. -Order:
Blackmail and- Kidnapping Frost Our OWN ConsrsroxeNT
Hankow, Aug: 28, "The Chinese City Police at' Ha Kow are faced with the problem of discovering a murderer who is of the most cold-blooded type. and seems to have entirely escaped, owing to the fear that. the average civilian has of an armed soldier. A' week. ago, at" daylight, an armed soldier in uniform was seen walking. with a woman of about thirty years among the fields at the buck of the railway. Arrived at the bank of fa large pond, he made the woman remove her outer garments and then threw her into the pond. Some} of the villagers in the neighbourhood yushed: up, but abandoned any attempt to interfere when they saw that the soldier carried-an automatic in his hand:
A fow of: the villagers followed the soldier when he left the pond, Dut none of them attempted to get. his number or other identification marks. They. asked him why he had drowned the woman and were that he had done so at the of his officer, whose wife the woman was, The officer had taken' a concubine and the wife had. got into an uncontrollable temper and lost her reason. This explained why, she had not offered any resistance. The man was lost in the crowd as) the main road was reached; and then some of the villagers ventured to ell the police what they had seen.
The manager of the Supeh Provineial Bank here as. rece!
Souter of treaty' bees, and the last one orders him to vend $3,000 to a place outside the railway near Chaokeo. He lilian placed the letters in the hands of the police, Acting on information which they had secured, the police yesterday: raided a house in the Street of the Eight Diagrams. They captured four men from Honan who were yeaponaible for an armed robbery.
a house in the country near Huangpel. After securing their spoils, the robbers selected one of several boys who were in the house and carried.him off, subsequently demanding $3,000 as ransom, This boy was not a member of the family, Dut was in' the house sharing in studios under a private teacher. The lad was found unharmed the house at Wuchang.
The Game of Pinpricks As the next move in the game of pinpricks, the Bureau of Education, has inatrueted the police to destroy all advertisements posted by the Victoria and other cinemas on the spaces they have rented on the uses, The reasons given are that the cinemas do not submit all firns they intend to exhibit to the censor, and they have not paid the nece ry stamp tax on their adver ments, As the proceeds of this Delong to the Bureau of Education, they have taken. up this question in order to save the young people of Hankow. from the contamination of uncensored films! The Bureau states that the only object of the proprietors is to make money, instead. of a desire to build up' the morals of the people.. They have therefore asked the French Consul-
General to order the cinemas to submit to the censorate as a condition of being allowed to continue their advertising.
Deaths from Cholera The vital statistics for June issued by the Bureau of Health show a total of 846 deaths, of which 26 were from smallpox, '38 from heat exhaustion and 16 from cholera.
There were seven suicides reported. As the thermometer has reached 99 degrees in the shade sometimes during August it is to be feared that the number of deaths will have greatly increased.
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