London, Oct. 13. "The parents of Mrs, Woodrulf thad a terrible shock. The first, intimation of the murder of their daughter in Harbin reached them when they were listening to the [wireless news bulletin at the house lof a relation at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, a small manufacturing town Inear Bristol, which they were vis ing.
Shortly afterwards their son Jdashed up in a car from Bristol, confirming the news, which had been cabled by the Imperial To-{bacco Company—Reuter.
Mrs. Woodruff, who sas formerly Miss Helen Dunning of Bedminster, Bristol, was married at Tientsin in 1924. She had herself been in the employ of the B.A.T. for some time,
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