The wedding took place on Sept. at Holy Trinity Cathedral of Pay-Sergeant Ralph Veasey, Ist Bu.
The Seaforth Highlanders, and ise Hilda Pritty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Pritty of London.
bride, who has been acting as governess in. the Belgian Embassy, arrived in Shanghai last Thursday. She was' given away by Inspector J. Smith, S.M.P. Miss Elsie Barnes acted as bridesmaid, ColoursSergeant W. Smith toas best man, and the usher weas Sergeant 'T. Harrison, Sailings Back- to Italian Tourist Normal Schedules Kidnapped Shanghai, Sept. 7.
British China coast' steamers resumed their normal voyages yes~ terday following the temporary ban con all sailings enforced by the Royal Navy in China waters immediately after the outbreak of war in Europe. The lifting of the ban also affected ocean-going vessels, including the Targe passenger liners, which had been held up in Hongkong and Shanghai by the naval order.
'The Lloyd Triestino liner, Giulio' Cesare, which was to have sailed from Shanghai lust week will leave port on Sept. 8, it was announced Yesterday. Te will be recalled that Immediately before the outbreak of war, the Talien vessel's sailing was postponed indefinitely.
The Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, sailed for Canada on the night of September 5. All Passengers. for Japan were dis~ Embarked by the Canadian Pacific authorities and the Tiner will proceed direct to Vancouver without any stops at Japanese ports. 4 Another Canadian Pacific vessel, which hed been held up by the Royal Navy's ban, was the Empress of Asia. She also left port on the night of September for Hongkong, "The USS, Marblehead arrived in port yesterday afternoon after a Short trip. to Chinwangtao, where she took on board Company "Ht of the Fourth United States Marines, which had. been undergoing training the northern port.
Shanghai, Sept. 9, Signor Francesco, Italian tourist who arrived in Shanghai some eight days ago, had the unpleasant experience of being Kidnapped by three Chinese, shortly after: 7 p.m. yester~ day as he was leaving the St. Anne Building, Rue clu Consular, He was released three hours later and French Concession detectives in ce-operation with Mahan Consular authorities were still questioning him at an early hour this morning.
Signor Francesco had just left the building where he had called on a friend, when suddenly, three armed Chinese forced him Into a waiting motorcar. They tied his hands and covered up his face so that he would not know where he was being taken, and a few minutes afterwards found himself' in. a. foreign-style house, the address of which he does not know, as he is a newcomer to this.
There the group of kidnappers asked him whether he was Italian, to which he answered in the affirma: tive, "He was asked to give his name, and when he did, the men seemed troubled as it was apparent that they had kidnapped the wrong man. They asked him Where he lived and when he told them that he "lived on Avenue clu Rol Albert, they gain bound his eyes, ordered him into the same ear, and' conveyed him to the corner of Route Paul Henri and Avenue clu Roi Albert where they ordered him to alight from the car and not to turn around as they would shoot him otherwise.
The motive for the crime is not known, and the police are not even sure whether the two dead men wer factually the intended victims of gunmen. One of the killed diners, Wong. Zung-yuen, 32, wasa merchant with business premises in Hongkew, while the other, Lieu Yang, 40, was understood to be unemployed. ' The two victims were rushed to the Lester Hospital for Chinese where, how: arrival. 3 ever, they were certified dead on
'This double-murder follows closely Jon the, killing on September 7 of Mr. Hsu Al-fuj middle-school principal and former City Government official, who, It will be recalled, was shot dead while in a hospital' bed, by a unmian who posed as a patient and Who was able to make his escape. last night's shooting, ballistic experts will sometime today establish Whether the weapons used, a Mauser fand a small calibre automatic, have previous police records, Meanwhile, Setectives are continuing, their inves tigation:
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