Aug. 19.
The dastardly murder of Mr. H. P. Krogh yesterday morning, just as he was Teaving' his residence in Amherst Avenue, has aroused more than a little sensation, and it is obvious that before the matter is tually closed some very pertinent questions will have to be asked. It will be remember ed that some time ago it was alleged against (Mr. Krogh that he had entered a Ta Tao police station had lowered a Ta Tao flag. It 4s reported that the Ta Tao Government protested and demanded satisfaction, but Mr. Krogh denied that he was in any way con-corned in the matter, and there it appears to have rested. Yesterday morning, from the information' available, he was leaving his house ju his motor car when two men approached him, and apparently asked if he were Mr. Krogh, upon receiving a reply in the affirmative he was immediately shot twice, wounds being inflicted from which he died very shortly afterwards. There does not on those facts appear to be any doubt that it was this man's death which was intended, for if it had merely been the wanton slaying of 4 foreigner there would have been no necessity for the assassins to have made sure of his identity. The question naturally arises as to whether this was a crime of revenge, and if so whether it was inspired officially or unofficially, It is to be hoped for the diminished credit of the Ta Tao Government that this will be proved to be the deed of some hotheads in no way having official connections, and that this crime may eventually be added to those others of which the gangsters of the badlands are responsible for quite a long list. If this murder was one of revenge, and there is evidence to suggest that it is, then nothing more despicable has been perpetrated in this area for a considerable time past. Even if Mr. Krogh had been guilty of the allegations made against him, and there is nothing to suggest that he was, to mete out death for it would have been wholly' out of proportion to the gravity of his alleged act.
If the theory of revenge cannot in the elrcumstances be disregarded, and it seems that
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