Pleasant Little Encounter Teashop Several shootings and armed robberies added to the long list of crime in Shanghai's annals, in one, of which a plucky shop assistant was wounded in the stomach, Beginning quite early on Thursday morning even before nine o'clock, a gang of nine or 10 armed men, with five or six pistols, rushed inside the teashop situated at 203 Ichang Road and opened fire at three men seated at a table. They fired eight Jor nine shots, according to police jeount, but fortunately no one was hit. "The intended victims returned ithe leaden fusillade with a volley of pots, pans and crockery ard beat off the gang, who retreated in three motor cars. The authorities believe ithe fight to have been the result of factional ructions.
At 11.30 am. five men, three of them carrying axes and one a pistol, stopped a coolie on Pingting Rond, firing one shot to intimidate him, They got nothing.
In the evening between six and seven o'clock three men shot the shop assistant at 458 Sinza Road, who attempted to protect his master's {Broperty. After the gang made off wit an amount unknown, the assistant was taken to hospital {a a serious condition.
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