wie a, po Rin CERE fA, D. A. MacGregor, Attorney-General of Kenya, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Hongkong. He will succeed Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp, who is retiring from that post.—Reuter. was learnt that he had been killed mmpany with a catechist Andrew kuomintang official who was captured by the same gang suffered connected with the garrison at Hwanjung was trussed up and thrown into the lake to drown.
Passenger Boat Captured cording to Hankow reports, Fr. Abilio was travelling by a big native boat which runs on a daily service between Hwajung and Yochow. There were sixty passengers on board but the boat had searcely left the river and entered the Lake when it was met by two other boats. The occupants of these ordered the fronted the: demand by" fung two coger craft to stop and aug-
shots, As soon as the order was obeyed the vessel was boarded Several men wearing grey suits and ferrying large knives and two or three Tiles. 'They immediately Started a search during which th passengers were treated with ceeding roughness, What" money was found was. taken and about ight of the passengers, namely Fr. Abilio, his boy, who is' about fourteen years old, Andrew Chang a jeatechist, an officer, connected with the troops at Hwajung, a man of the Social Tangpu at Hwajung and three others were taken off.
Two Slashes and a Stab The captors took the party to Jo point not very far distant where there were two other boats waiting tied up and with the excep-ion of Fr, Abilio were questioned jas to. their names, the part of the country to which' they belonged, business, ete. When the examination came to_an end Fr. Abilio, Andrew Chang and the man from the Tangpu were ordered to go on shore. There in less than three minutes they were killed. The priest received two- slashes on. the Meek anda hideous stab. Andrew Chang and the Tangpu man sulferthe same devilish fate and the bandits then departed leaving the bodies, with the heads all" but severed, Tying on the ground.
'With' the exception of the army officer and Fr. Al boy the remaining prisoners Were then release fed and these were the first to bring word of the affair. On the morning 26 several men from th ith sixty soldiers and evide There they found the bodies lying and brought them Lack to Yochow. There were also at the spot several skulls gnd skeletons showing that this is not the, first outrage of its kind, Fr, Abilio's remains bore mute
[dreadful death he had suffered. The evidence mutilation of the Same afternoon the priest's servant arrived at Yochow and (7a oticer had also met his death. that the day previously the army
According to the boy, the band numbered "seventeen. Their fire-Jarms comprised of practically use-fess rifles. They were not Reds bat were pirates or bandits who moved about, from place to place ight and during the day generally appeared in the guise of fshermien. They were all young people, their captain being "only thirty years old. Each, however, carried Rbout with him over a hundred dol: lars and this was the reason why they looked with disdain on copper coins and when they came across them they threw them: into the water, on the bridle-path retind the Glacis yesterday.
Japanese military, without troubling to notify the other Legations, or even to erect a notice. board, suddenly decided to stop all ing on their part of the Clacis during "military exercises, - merely handing riders a pencilled and unsigned note to this effect, is Arguello, ignoring the note, continued to ride, but, on returning, she was surrounded by a dozen soldiers with fixed bayonets. One fof the soldiers threw a large stone fat the pony, others. struck her on the arm, snatched away her Tidingjeane and broke it. Others seized the pony's bridle and tried to drag Miss Arguello awa} Miss Arguello was saved from further violence by the intervention fof Commandant Benoit-Guyod, Com. mandant of the French Legation Guard, who went to her assistance.
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