The soldier drank all tat was put before him, the "foreigner states, in: cluding a whole bottle of samshui one, gulp, and then weaved his to another village, not far from the 16th green of the Golf Caib. News that he was abroad had, however, spread like fire to the surrounding district and all young women had either hidden themselves or fled to safety, In front of one house satythree old Chinese women, all well over sixty years of age, and the soldier asked them whether there were any young women about. They said there were none. He immediately shot all three dead, firing at them from a distance of about three feet.
Still apparently on the search for women, he wandered on to the Golf Course and, coming upon the mother of one of the caddies and the brother of the club's assistant caddie-master, shot and wounded both of them, and then proceeded to bayonet the father of the caddie-master. The latter was not seriously wounded, but the other two had to be taken away to the Red Cross Hospital in an ambulance summoned by certain members of the club who happened to be on the premises when the wounded people ile, the soldier wandered into the country south of the club and, it is reported, shot and wounded two other men after walking for about a mile. Yesterday, the bodies of th^ hree old women who had been killed were "lying in state" on top of coffins which they had, in accordance with the old Chinese custom, purchased some time ago on the approach of old age; all three were, of course, clad in their finest clothes,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.