Word: beppu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later expressed it-"handling a pistol." The thing went off and killed handsome young Prince Hsien Kai, cousin of China's deposed Boy Emperor Henry P'u-yi ("Henry") (TIME, Aug. 12). The shooting occurred in the garden of Chang's hotel at Beppu, a Japanese island summer resort. Last week the Beppu police made no protest when indicted Chang Tsung-chang and his suite journeyed to the neighboring port of Moji, conferred with an elder brother of the youth whom he had shot...
...shooting occurred last week at Beppu, a summer resort on the Japanese island of Kiushiu. There Prince Hsien Kai, handsome 21-year-old cousin of poor P'u-yi. was strolling in the garden of his hotel when he heard a pistol report, felt the stab of a bullet in the back, fell grievously wounded...
...whose wholesale savageries, rapes and extortions are a byword throughout the Orient, rich, scowling Chang Tsung-chang evoked awed, fearful respect when he and his suite put up at Beppu. That a shot would sooner or later be fired in or from Chang's sumptuous apartments might almost have been called a foregone conclusion...