Complete mystery surrounds the murder on Monday night of IChinese in an alleyway near the China Merchants Wharf on the French Bund, Deceased was shabbily dressed and his clothes were torn which appears to indicate that he fought for his life.
Investigations made the French police with a view to certaining the motive for the crime have '30 far have been purely negative. There seems to be no indication that the affair was a case lof intimidation as the deceased was, Jona Chinese-owned wharf. No-witnesses of the affair have come forward nor does anybody. ins ithe immediate neighbourhood re-[port hearing shots fired. The body of the decease. remains unidenticee
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