A young Chinese woman of the higher middle-class was lying in the Public Morgue yesterday awaiting identification. She had been murdered, probably very early on Thursday morning, and the body deposited in a piece of waste ground off East Yuhang Road near Singkeipang Road, in the devastated Kashing Road district, Apparently death was due to beating, the back of the woman's heed having been bashed in, but the theory that she might first have been stabbed was not excluded. The Settlement Police were notified at 6 o'clock on Thursday evening.
The age of the woman was estimated as between 22 and 30 years. She was about 5 fect in height and exceptionally neatly dressed, in trousers and jacket.
The Procurator of the First Special District Court held an inquest yesterday morning in which he gave violence. verdict of death due to external Canada Expected to Pay
U.S. $600,000,000
Ottawa, Nov. 17.
It is estimated that Canada will spend U.S.$600,000,000 on war purposes in the first year of the war, according to the "Citizen," an evening paper. The Imperial air training plan is expected to entail an outlay, in the first year, of between U.S. $250,000,000 and U.S.$300,000,000, the journal adds.—Reuter,
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