Reverting to its old name of Metropolitan Hotel, the present Asia Hotel in Nanking will be placed under the management of the Central China Railway Company, a joint Sino-Japanese enterprise, effective March 1, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday.
The only hostelry in Nanking to Possess 100 rooms, the establishment was well-known before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Improvements are being planned by the new management, Three Houses on Fire In Changping Road Three houses in Lane 133, Changping Road, were damaged by fire which started at about 330 o'clock yesterday morning. House 11, containing a shop and living quarters, was badly affected, while the other two structures were only slightly damaged. No-one was injured. The Fire Brigade spent nearly an hour at the scene, factory godowns.
Merchants who have placed orders for coal balls with factories, however, contend that they have received bills uH at the time. In have paid the money in bills of sale and Inefficiency in production blamed and it is even all ial HU tion as to who are manipulating remains to be answered.
Girl Shot Four Times Miss Chen crumpled to the floor with four wounds, in the abdomen, back, neck and shoulder. One of her companions, Mr. Pang Chin-tan tea-merchant residing in San Tuli Faung, off Connaught Road, also slumped to the floor shot through the chest, while the other, Mr. Liu Pai-yung, a broker, grasped his right arm where a bullet had torn through the flesh.
Police arrived from Bubbling Welt Station, nearby, led by Inspector J. Smith. He ordered all entrances closed, including the lowering of the heavy grille which protects the main doorway. Later Chief Inspector J. A. McFarlane took charge and called the red vans of the Reserve Unit, The large building was surrounded and a thorough search was made, every person within being questioned. 1t was found, however, that the killer had slipped away in the confusion which reigned immediately after the crime had been committed. He had apparently escaped by the main door Which opens on the corner of Vu Yuen Road and Jessfeld Road. Mr. Paul Chung, Chinese sub-inspector in the Municipal Police Specials, who was a guest in the ballroom, had followed him to the top of the stairway where he had subsequently lost sight of him in the crowd of night lifers,
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