Desperate Attempt to Extract Money from Official Resident in Concession 'A. sensational shooting incident took place in. Chapei_ on Wednesday at eight o'clock. when two nese detectives attached to the French Municipal Police and a member of the Chapei Volunteer Force were shot, one of the detectives being killed.
appears that Mry Tao Yuan, the' Director-General of the Nation al. Cigareit Bureau and_former Superintendent of the Shanghai Customs, who, lives at No. 2
Route Vallon, had received several letters demanding large sums. of money under threats. - Information to this effect was given to the French authorities, together with the letters, and it was arranged that detectives" would visit the spot, Where the writers demanded the money should be handed over, but for some reason or other the blackmailers failed to keep their appoint ment. Aw the result of a further letter, another meeting was arrang. ed for yesterday evening in Chapei Accordingly, four Chinese detectives went to the meeting place in Naisch Road, Chapel, one going to meet the blackmailers and the other three remaining inthe near vicine ity, watching the proceedings. During. the talk, it'appears, the blackmailers discovered that the man with whom they were salking was a de-Xeetive and they drew pistols and shot him through the head three times, killing him immediately The other detectives rushed up and the bluckmailers made off, fung at the police as they went. There neems to have been something in the nature of a running fight, in hich another of the detectives revolved a slight wound inthe arm, While " "Chinese Volunteer, who, having heard the shots, rushed up and joined the police in' an attempt intercept the fugitives, was also shot in the arm, tater the exchange of several shots, during which, fortunately, no others were hit, further chase' proved fruitless and the scoundrels made good their escape.
The name of the deceased detect. ive was Dei Tse-zai and, we learn, hho has been a member of the French Police Force for quite a number of years,
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