Greatest Outbreak for Many Years: Huge Heroin Haul from s. Taiyuan nos Oun Ows Connssroxoen?
Hongkong, Sept. 12.
Between August 20 and September 10, Hongkong, usually the most or-dorly of places, has: had an unprecedented wave of murder, seven having been committed. It has been the cause of a redoubling of Police effort. European officers of the Criisinal investigation Departmen: have all seven murders under investigation, end _in two cases have already made arrests.
Since August 22, when a Japanese masseuse, Miss Maru, was found brutally murdered, there has been a record number of such crimes in Hongkong. This, of course, takes in various districts, for three' occurred in the New*Tertitories, two in the Central Distict, one in' Wanchai and one in Yaumati. Three—took place fon consecutive days, namely, Sept. 5, Gand 7.
They are not the work of a gang of assassins, state officials of the Criminal Investigation Department, for no two murders are the nor are the circumstances, similar.
'Not since 1922, the year of the Colony's First general strike, has there been such an outbreak.' Even then there were only three. During the strike of 1925 there were five.
"At present European detectives have been assigned to each of the seven cases, a staff of Chinese off-cers being attached to each of these investigator
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