Nine Cases Reported Within Four Days Hongkong. June 1 A suicide epidemic appears to be sweeping. the Colony.
Closely following of Mrs. Alves Guerra, wife of the Portuguese Consul-General, and. Mrs Florence Hodges, wife of an employee lof the Naval Yard. three further suicides have been reported, cond bullet through her head.
Mrs. Guerra was found in a d
[and a revolver lying beside her on the floor. while a partly used bottle of chloroform was seen on the table Mrs Guerra's husband was present when the discovery was made and iwas the first to enter the room. No letter was found and no motive could be established.
Mrs. Gue-ra was 2 beautiful woman lor about 29 years of age. Of french nationality, she was 1 comparatively. Fecent arrival Mrs. Hodges. who was 44 years of age, was a native of Suffolk.
'The persons concerned in to-day' eases, which bring the total of Chinese and foreign suicides to feast nine within four days, were Fung Ning-koo, an Eurasian lady resident in Wanchai: Enrique Gray, jan Eurasian resident in Kowloon: fand Chan Sang. a type-setter _employed by the "South China Morning,
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