The Archive · 1935

U. 8. Seeks Information

Nanking, Oct. 18.

The American Embassy has sent 9 Note to the Foreign Office requesting that the Chinese authorities take steps to ascertain the cause and manner of the death of Mrs. Susan Waddell-Hsu.

The Note also requests that the JChinese authorities "take steps to arrest her murderer or murderers.

Mr. William T. Collins, Commissioner of the United States Court for [China in Shanghai, arrived here this morning to collect information con-Jeerning the death of the American woman. He informed newspapermen that the purpose of his visit was purely a routine procedure taken whenever the death of an American citizen occured in China.

Autopsy Statement

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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