OFFICIAL SHOT DEAD
SMUGGLERS' REVENGE. It is believed that the vigilance of a young English officer of the Chinese Maritime Customs was responsible for his death at the hands of smugglers in the Hainan area of Southern China. The official, Mr Edgar Reginald Collier, aged 29, son -of Mr and Mrs Charles Collier, of Whiteley Village, near Walton-on-Thanics. was shot dead and five others were injured in a haud-10-haud fight with tlie smugglers. , • Mr Collier had recently returned to the East after spending his leave in. England, and in his last letter to his parents, wrote: “I have just brought off a good seizure of smuggled goods to the value of '£1000.” That " capture apparently resulted in the smugglers deciding to end his activities. Three years ago Mr Collier married a French girl in Hongkong, and she went home to England with him on a year’s leave. It was only a few weeks ago that he was transferred to Hainan, which is more than 204 miles from Hongkong. An * elder brother of the shot man is also in the Customs service at Peking.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22354, 30 August 1934, Page 4
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