mander-in-chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, returned to Shanghai yesterday morning from Tsingtao on board a submarine, accompanied by the naval salvage tender. U.S.S. Pigeon, and five other submarines.
After the submarine had berthed near Holts Wharf on the Pootung A gruesome discovery was made yesterday in Sinza Road when the decomposed body of a Chinese woman was found by the chief tenant of house 12 Lane 353 at about 8 am.
Police investigations revealed that the room where the body was found was rented last year by a Chinese, who called himself Koh, and a woman, who was said to be his wife. The room was rented in August, but in September Koh told his landlady that his wife had left the city and that he would not live in the room, although he would like io keep it. The man paid his rent regularly every month without visiting the room.
He failed to appear during the last two months and the landlady decided to open the room and clean it up wishing to rent it out to some One else. Early yesterday morning she went into the room and saw a large wooden trunk there. The horrible odour emanating from the trunk filled her with curiosity and the woman opened it to behold the decayed remains of a human being.
The case was reported io the Sinza police station and the detectives, investigating the mystery, believe that the woman, said to be about 23, years of age, was a sing song girl Supreme Court Grants Decree Absolute A successful application was made by Mrs. Lilian Frances Mary Douglas Adams before Judge Sir Allan Mossop in H. M. Supreme Court yesterday for a decree absolute following the pronouncement by the court on January 31, last, of a decree nisi for dissolution of her marriage to Mr. Archibald Gordon Douglas-Adams.
The parties were absent, but petitioner was represented by Mr. Ranald McDonald, who filed an affidavit supporting her application. Taxed costs were ordered against respondent, cide, the admiral went aboard his auxiliary yacht, the U.SS. Isabel which arrived here from northern waters on Tuesday evening and was moored alongside the Yengtze patrol flagship Luzon, at the American naval flagship Luzon, at the American naval buoys.
Following his arrival the admiral conferred on board the yacht with other American naval officers on matters relating to the U.S. Asiatic
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