Gen. Hsu Hua-liang Murdered in Settlement: Assailant under Arrest: Political Motives Suspeeted Gen. Hsu Kuo-liang, Director-General of the Shanghai and Woosung Constabulary, Was seriously wounded shortly after seven o'clock on Saturday evening by a shot fired by a man named Li Dah-sung in Yunnan conscious on Sunday afternoon and able to answer questions.
Gen. Hsu, who was dressed in a pair of silk woollen-padded trousers and' a silk woollen-padded gown at the time, was later visited by a number of lead-
Gen. Hsu was leaving the Wen Chuan Bathi-house at the corner of Yunnan. Road and Avenue Edward VII (opposite the Great World) at 7.20 o'clock and was about to get into his motor car, which was waiting for him in Yunnan Road, the door of the ear meanwhile being opened by one Yang Tz-chun, Gen. Hsu's bodyguard, - when Li Dah-sung stepped forward from behind, aimed his.32 calibre automatic pistol at Gen. Hsu's back and fired. Gen. Hsu immediately dropped, the bullet passing through the left side of the back, over the hip, into the abdomen. The glass of the motor car was broken.
The bodyguard of Yang at once rushed up to the assailant and struggled with him. Shaking off his captor, the man got up and ran, closely followed by Yang. Li thereupon turned round and fired a second shot, striking the bodyguard in the head and bringing him to the ground. Li ran northwards firing as he ran. Very shortly he was intercepted by Chinese and Sikh constables who had been attracted by the shooting and the blowing of police whistles. The police also opened fire with their carbines and a Quel ensued, the police firing four times and the fugitive emptying his magazine. Fortunately no pedestrians were injured. Eventually Li was captured and taken to the Louza Police Station.
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