Turner has relinquished head of Router in, the Far East upon being promoted. to membership of the Reuter Admini. stration in London, Accompanied by Mrs, Turner, he left. Shangh en route to Eniland yesterday the Empress of Asia.
For the past eleven years Turner has been Reuters General Manager and chief correspondent in the Far East, in which capacity he has been "in. charge of Reuter' in in China, "Tapan, Hong: Kong, the Strats and Bata Tutver joined the editorial star Revtar im London sateen ears og Shietof the department witch sends and. year later he wan appoint
dally news service to Australia, South Africa, Canada and the Far Bist! This position war made the note important by the fact that Topartment during the later" years the War had charge of the social War nows service to the. British Dominions, part of which was sent tinder" an' Rrrangement. with "the British "Government. "Mx Turner {erce Joined the British Army dor-Ing the War, but the authorities Considered fs other work the mare Smrortant tind he was retained for 5 Throughout the Paris Peace Consorence of 1019 Me, Turner acted 45 ne of Reuter's special correspon ents. He was also in charge of the ffcint reports to the British Press for the plenary sessions of the Con-Serence, while he superintended the Parla' arrangements for the distribution by" Reuter of a Summary throughout the, "world (except In North America sind. Russia)" of the. Peace" Treaty. This summary ran into 16,000 words one. of the longest neve en ever despatched by cable Iie, Turner Was present both at the Presentation of the pence terms to the German plenipotentiales ut the Trianon and at the signing of the Treaty at Yo 1920 Mr, Turner vas a.m of the British delegation to perial" Press Conference one. of the, Britis) representatives 'AL the Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1929 at|™*
French police maintained _re-licence. "It "was, however, reveal. Jed that the Information was wired to Shanghai by the Hankow autrities, who have in their. custody, several suspected "kidnappers, The suspects. were arrested. in that Yangtze port several days ago. Tt was reported that during the poli arrogation, one of the gangsters According to the Hankow informa-tien nine people had met thei fate at the hands of the - gang. The bogies" were burlet the. yards" of two foreignatyle hhouses,"No. "33 and No. 7 the Shu Tang" Alley, "of cute wasper Paris, which is near A. representative of the "North. [China Daily News" visited the place Sunday afternoon. 'The "two houses, situated in the last row of alley, face a tract of "folds, Which are separated from the alley by: bamboo fences, 'In the house, No. 33, where four bodies were buried, the' top layer of the "earth in a small yard was teraped, while in the house No. 37, in plank' of wood covers the disturbed surface, According to a policeman ion duty, the bodies. were visible almost immediately after [operations commenced.
There are altogether 37 house the alley, built about a year.|Of the number, only nine houses are occupied, the last row being entirely deserted, According to a resident in the alley, the house No, 33 was child and a occupied by a Ningpo, couple, rinse-boy in April, while he other house by a native family in the same month. Both families appeared quite well-to-do, as they Owned motor ears, the resident said.
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