our Three Chinese Hacked to Death by Robbers Stealing into the house ut for. their crime, Ghinese having cracked apparently attracted the of the tenant, wiped out a family three with a heavy chopper dur-ug the early hours of December 8.
The crime, one of the most darin and brutal during the last several months, was perpetrated "ina carpenter's shop at 1673 East Soward. Road. The victims are Wang Yuan-shing, the proprietor of the shop bearing his name, his Wite and a 20 year-old son.
The safe is placed in a room upstairs in which slept the victims. There ave six employees who occupy 'a big. oom immediately behind the Garpenter's works in the shop.
The horrible discovery was made at 7.45 a.m. When the suspicions of the employees were aroused at the non-appearance of the proprietor. One of them ascended the staircase and found pools of blood in. the room.
'The shop is situated a few yards away. from. the intersection of Kangping Road, not far from the Glectric supply store. on. the. same Street, ast Seward Road, in which two. women were stabbed' to d by robbere about three months ago. The room above the shop presented scene of robbery and violence. Pools blood covered a wide area of the oom and algo one of the two beds.
The safe had been opened and ransacked, immediately in front of ch lay the body of the youth, brutally hacked. "From the evidence gathered, the detectives were. con-Vinced that a desperate struggle had taken place between the youth and the robbers tofore the. youth met this fate. "The other two Kodies were found in a bed nearby. They were tacked about the head and body.
Enquiries conducted among. the employees licited the information That faint eres of agony and noise of violence had been heard in the They made no effort to intigate the affair, being satisfied ith the presumption of, another jarrd and fight between the couple had commonly been the case, they One of the most vital forces of constructive value in contemporary social evolution has been the gradual [development of the capitalist system which has made possible the more [equitable distribution of wealth resulting from productive effort, Mr. Hughes said, i for. imation of e6-operativ for the investment of nct of saving, itself, Jone of the most tributary th life insurance clement in the system is such massed savings, invested im many forms and largely owned jund controlled by the best elements of the working and salaries class that have served. to develop tem, he declared and fo kee stable, ince factor than other lar lines, Mr. Hughes utilised, the history and present that industry to corroborate his statements, "The vast funds of the life insurance "companies constitute. the! nmaaterial expression of some of the best psychic qualities humanity possesses," the speaker declared, namely prudence, thrift, and a sense of responsibility for the welfare of others. 'This great aggregation of national wealth, mainly created and owned by multitudes of wage' Jcarners, encouraging and rewarding what is best in human character, 12 complete answer to those who off th Pocialism or communism as a substitute for the economic system, which, in spite of defects, for whi 1 solution has yet to be found, ages Jef selective experience have shown to be most suited to the best interests of humanity at this stake in it, social, evolutionary develop-
In bringing his lecture to a close, Mr. Hughes declared that no social sound. that assumes men are born equal, or that fails to recognise the existence of inequalities in the mental and moral, jas well as physical, endowments of individuals, or that refuses to ack-knowledge the vital importance of superior rewards as the incentive ta [development of superio~ men, Among other -conclusin his opinion that in spite of the present existence in' acute form of Fevolutionary and subversive docts sines and activities, right must} prevail against wrong. possession of the police.
Robbery sai to have been motive of the "What experience proves is best to enlightened public opinion will survive," Mr. Hughes concluded, Sand what is unworthy will be re-
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