Shanghai, Oct. 18. 'A Chinese official of the "Reformed Government" was yesterday reported to have been assassinated In a room the New Asia Hotel. Up to a late Hhour, however, no information regard ing the alleged crime had been Jcommunieated to the Hongkew Police Station in whose district the hotel fs situated. SMP. Headquarters Ukewise had not been apprised that killing had taken place.
The man said to have been murder-
Jed, Vu Ta-hsiung, is a former owner and editor of a small Chinese newspaper, called the "Crystal." When Ihe joined the reformed regime, it is stated, he was given the title "Counseller to the Ministry of Industry" but his work actually hes been in the nature of press propaganda.
He is said to have been killed by Chinese "hatchet-men in the New Asia Hotel early yesterday morning.
The ce-operation Indian Arrested for Wife's Murder Shanghai, Oct, 12.
Dalip Singh, an Indian private watchman, living at 297 Hungjao Road, was arrested last night by. Settlement Police and charged with the murder of his 22-year-old wife, Charon Kaur.
As reported in the "North-China Daily News" the woman, who had just returned to live with her husband after being evacuated to India during. the hostilities, was found lying dead ina sack in a creek a quarter of a mile west of Hungjao Road on [September 29. The body was trussed and it is believed that the woman had been strangled.
It was stated that the information that the woman was lying in the creek was given to the police by Dalip Singh. At the opening of the inquest on September 30 identified the body as that of his wife, The enquiry was then adjourned until October 7 when Mr, IT. Morris, H.M. Coroner, adjourned the inquest sine die, without hearing! any evidence, 'The arrest was carried out by police from the Bubbling Well Station who found -Dalip Singh on Hungjao Road, near his home. It is under stood' that he will make an appeartance in HM. Court today.
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