FATE OF A CHINESE FAMILY
I GO HOME TO CHINA AND ARE | -MURDERED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ! Wanganui, Last Night. For fourteen years Ngan For was a I well-known and inspected market srar- [ dener in Wanganui. He was married to a Chinese woman, and had three little. children the eldest aged four. The family were e«teemed by a considerable number of European friends. About six months ago they went on what was intended to l.c a three years' visit to China. Letters were received in town announcing their safe arrival at Hong i Kong, and later at Hankow. News just to hand announces that a terrible calamity has befallen them. It appears that the family were living in a village thirteen miles from Canton, and that a band of marauders attacked the house in the dead of night. Ngan For was disabled by gunshot, and the robbers, after ransacking the house, carried oft two ol the children. Mrs.' For pursued them to recover the children, but was shot, dying a few hours later.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 2, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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172FATE OF A CHINESE FAMILY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 2, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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