Peking, Sept. 15.
Yesterday evening the well-known banker Mr. Peng Kung-Kwang was fenfertaining a large party of bank: ers, financiers and actors, inelading Mei Lan-fang, when armed. robbers entered, held up the party at the point of revolvers and. demanded] $200,000. amon sloped out and summon. followed in: which Mr. Chang Han.
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chu, of the Ministry of Finance, was seriously wounded. "He succumbed to his wounds before the ambulance {in which he was placed reached the Peking Union Medical College.
The police killed one robber, while another was executed to-day and his head hung up om Hatamen Street
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