Admiral Oikawa mounted the saluting Accom by his stof Vice-base, situated outside the Japanese Naval Landing Party Barracks in Kiangwan Road, shortly after 10 am. His arrival was heralded by a fanfare of bugles, which, as it died away, was followed by the martial strains lof the Japanese national anthem played by a naval band immediately facing the reviewing stand. As the Admiral's arm came down from the an saluting position the signal for the procession of vehicles to move was given by the band which played a lively marching tune.
A few moments later the first car in which were seated Rear-Admiral Yoshinobu Shishido, commander of the nese Naval Landing Party, and his staff officer, passed by Vice-Admiral Oikawa with flag fying. jacket, each vehicle under the com-Hotties carving smartly clad blue-cam smartly ci
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military trucks; and, drowning the music of the band, stridently roaring tanks and less noisy armoured car: As the last line of vehicles in the parade passed by, Vice-Admiral Oikawa, attended by his staff and three armed sentries, entered a military car which took him to Hongkew Park for the next stage in the review. d male refugees body has been changed into that of a woman. This is the startling new development in the murder case referred to the First Special District Court in which a refugee named Chang Peh-yuan was alleged to have been beaten to death because he revealed the secret of the theft of the refugee rice by five men in charge of the No. 42 Refugee Camp in Fah Hwa Cheng, which is in the western district.
The five men, including the director of the refugee camp himself, are now standing trial but when their victim's son led the police to investigate the body on Friday by opening the coffin in a Chinese coffin repository near Columbia Road, they found a dead woman inside instead of the victim who was a man.
The police are taking a serious view of the matter and they are investigating whether it is a mistake made by employees of the coffin repository or it has been replaced by accomplices in the crime who are at large.
The police began their action only recently when they received a report from the dead man's son to the effect that his father was beaten to death by group of men as a personal revenge. He pointed out that before the murderous attack was made on his father the victim had revealed the secret that those in charge of the refugee camp had sold part of the refugee rice {o their own advantage.
At Hongkew Park Men in Charge Arrested the arrival of their command the military guests attending the review. Mounting a reviewing stand composed of sandbags amid the jo Cercle clicking of cameras, Vice-Admiral of Oikawa stood at the salute as a naval New band played the national anthem, "in, in the ap-while the whole assembly remained at attention. Then, headed by the band, the assembled bluejackets with their bayonets glinting in the sun, on of the marched in'review order past the are the saluting base and back to their former positions.
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