Just as a little reminder that Hongkong is not quite outside the area of Chinese polities, there came fan attempt at assassination last Sunday nforning, in the remnant of old China known as Kowloon City, on the Colony's mainland, Luckily for the intended victim, the would-be assassins used a somewhat. rudely-manufactured bomb, which failed to explode.
The object of the attempt was General Hung Shao-lan, an officer in the forces of General Chan Kwing-ming, and recently appointed by Peking to be Defence sioner_of the Cheungchow district near Swatow. He had recently returned to this Colony from a visit to the East River front. The bomb came from an empty house opposite the one in which the General resides, and the police are still Joking for two strange. young Chinese who were observed Jounging about the place earlier in the day.
There have been several political murders, and attempted murders, in the Colony' during the past.' 18 months, and from time to time there has been an outery against the way in which agitators are able to seek asylum here and hatch their plots, or do their dirty work, without fear of molestation. This Kowloon City outrage serves to draw further attention to the existence of these undesirables in our midst.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.