Kueichow General Shot in Tibet Road: A Carefully Planned Affair The record of political crime in Shanghai was added to on Wednesday night by a daring and fatal attack upon General Wang-Men-hua, Commaneer-in-Chief of the -Kueichow forces, as he about to leave the Yih Ping Shang hotel in Thibet Road.
Briefly, the circumstances of the crime: were as follows: General Wang paid a visit to some friends in: the hotel and went down into the: hall to enter his motor car shortly after six o'clock. As he crossed the pavement to the ear, he' was fired at by a man with a revolver from a window on the ground floor of the hotel, a few feet the right of the car. At least shots were fired, and three of them took' effect. General Wang was wounded' in the abdomen, the right breast, and the back. The fourth shot struck a Chinese workman who was passing by, but this man, hit in the shoulder, was not seriously wounded. General Wany's wounds were of a most serious nature, and he collapsed into unconsciousness fro.u which he never recovered. He was driven at once in his own car to the Shantung Road ' Hospital, but was in a condition beyond all assistance, and} he-died within a quarter of an hour ofshis arrival at the hospital. He made no: statement.
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