Hongkong, Mar. 16 The inexplicable simultaneous suicide to-day of five Chinese women in the New Territories Is providing difficult puzzle for the Hongkong authorities to solve, The five worner who were busily engaged in reaping a crop of grain, suddenly threw down their tools and ran screaming to the river into which they leaped to. their death, The owner of the farm, who wit messed the unusual tragedy, is unable {to explain what caused the women to take this action—Reuter,
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