The Archive · 1928

ANTI-COMMUNIST

MURDERED

Dramatic Shooting in a Chinese Lodging House While they were lying in bed at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, in 8 Chinese ledging house at 141 Foo-Chniese storekeeper, it is' said, is an anti-Communist agent, and two others, were raided by a couple of armed men who hurriedly fired four shots. at them, and then escaped before an alarm could be raleed.

The storekeeper was killed instantaneously with a bullet wound in the stomach, and the two others were desperately wounded, also in the stomach, and are lying in a critical condition in the Lester Chinese Hospital.

Detective-Inspector Quayle and Chinese assistants, of the Louza Police Station, made investigations and discovered four empty Mauser:

tol shells in the bed. The private Papers of the murdered man show him to have been connected with the Anti-communists at Kiangyin, and that his purpose was to supply his party with arms and ammunition, grass bag containing several dozen leather pistol holsters was discovered in the room, and it is thought that the murder was gated by the Communists.

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