A Chinese couple apparently decid ed 10 end. their lives together on June 24, at the North Railway Station Hotel in Boundary Road, but they both survived the experience.
'A Fire Brigade ambulance was summoned to the hotel shortly before 3 o'clock to convey the man and woman to hospital, suffering from plum poisoning.—Later in the day, however, the man was discharged. from the Lester Hospital and the woman from the Shanghai Sanitarium Obstacles in the way of their Fomance were blamed for the alleged double attempt at suicide.
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