Liù tried to end her life on February Upon learning of the bad news Mrs.
8, taking poison but she did not succeed as her. relatives sent.her to a hospital. On February 16, she shot and killed herself in her residence in Chengtu. Before ending her life she wrote several letters, one of which asked her relatives to give all she possessed to the poor.
"I cannot bear the thought of seeing my husband suffering from a lonesome death and myself, leading a lonesome life. His death is a honourable one for he died for the country but where is the meaning of my existence?" Mrs. Liu asked in another letter in which she insisted that she be buried beside her hus-
January 5 of this year.
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