Another shooting affray occurred in Nantao Bund on Sunday mors ing shortly after seven o'clock, which resulted in the wounding of two persons, one of whom passer-by and the other a detective.
From official investigations appears that three men 5 the Kompo dialect and evidently professional opium smugglers had come from Tsungming by steamer, and had landed in the usual way. Each carried what appeared to heavy bag and in the pocket of one was noticed the bulge of a pistol, They walked along Nantao for some distance when they noticed that they were being shadowed by a detective, who apparently knew what the bigs contained, Suddenly the men came to a stop, turned round and opened fire on the detective, who received two wounds in the head, "A score of shots. were fired and the result was that, apart from the detective, a pedestrian was shot.
Hearing the sound of shots, potice rushed up from all sides but the three men had escaped before their Failing to effect any arrests, the police immediately removed the two wounded persons to the hospital, where the detective now lying in a critical state,
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