The British Industrial Mission arrived at Changchi on October 10 and were received there by the authorities. On the following day they. were received in audience by the Emperor and in the evening were the quests of honour at a great banquet. The next day they made many and attended further banguels, also receiving some of the British Fecidents of Harbin, bu: they left Harbin out of their itinerary, thus missing seeing the sorgest industrial ind commercial city of North Man have gleaned much commercial and industrial Information.
The dastardly murder of Engineer Strasburg and his wife in the very centre of the city has been the talk. of the town during the past few days, as well as the smart action of the detective police who followed up clues 30 quickly that they were able to catch the man who committed the crime at Tsitsihar in less than two days. Strasburg was a private eng-Ineer and chemist who manufactured carbolic acid for many' of the local chemists, having a wife and two small daughters. His murderer, 9 young Russian named Ivanushko, had worked for him, and apparently committed the murder for some purposes of revenge. He called Strasburg out to the gate of the works yard. and there killed him by" battering his head in with an axe. Afterwards he went into the house and attacked the man's wife in the same way, and though she was not dead when the police found her, she died very shortly afterwards. The murderer at first declared that he had nothing to do with the murder, but muddled himself up so in his evidence that he finally confessed to the crime.
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