OFFICER DISAPPEARS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19604, 5 April 1927, Page 9

OFFICER DISAPPEARS.

INCIDENT IN SHANGHAI. POLICE SEARCH FRUITLESS. The British authorities at Shanghai are disturbed by the disappearance of Lieut. R. L. Wight, D.S.C., from the cruiser Vindictive. Lieut. Wight, who is 27 years of age, went ashore on February 14, and has not been seen since he parted from a group of friends at a midnight cabaret between two and three o'clock the following morning. The international police searched the settlement for three days, but did not find the slightest trace of him. It is out of the question that he has been the victim of anything in the nature of a political attack, for the night he disappeared he wore civilian evening dress. The police theory is that he either met with foul play while proceeding alone to the riverside, or that he fell overboard from a sampan in the treacherous Whangpoo while returning to the cruiser. Lieut. Wight, according to one of fche officers who was with him on the night before he disappeared, spent the afternoon at the Shanghai Club, went -from there to the French Club, and after that visited two or three cabarets during the evening. The last seen of him was when he left his friends, presumably with the intention of returning to the Vindictive.