Janda lady friend went out fora motor-car ride, Driven by.a Chic nese chauifeut the car," bearing French Concession plates number-fed 7895 and Chinese plates number: ed, 2814 went out on the Lunghua On the way back, not far from the yamen, two soldiers shouted out for the car to stop, stepping out into the middle of the road with! arms raised in the The chauffeur immediately put on the brakes, and brought the car to halt at the side of the ron The two soldiers came to the side of the car and looked into the windows. Apparently satisfied that the. occupants of the. car. were Europeans and did not consti source of dang it was they were "guarding, the soldiers waved the cat on, The chauffeur let in the clutch, land the car moved forward. Dr. Porges turned in his seat to gaze through the rear window at the soldiers.
Suddenly one of the soldiers brought his rifle to his shoulder 8nd, at point-blank range, fired at. the! Beck of the car.
The bullet hit Dr. Porges, under the Tight shoulder blade and, came fon the files was jerked with some Plaster on to the floor. The noise the airmail was heard" again. round and then, after hesitation, The next thing to hap:
'a ring' of the telephone. 'This brought an inquiry of the cause Jof the explosion. 'Then peace was Jat an-end: Soon another' telephone reali' came with the news that a Japanese aeroplane had bombed Kiangnan arsenal or the foreign notice. That seemed a little hard jon the Hankow airmail. But there was not muck time to trouble about that.
Telephone bells in the office rang ind rang and rang. No less than ninety calls were received by the overs of Sunday afternoon peace. Kind colleagues, resting from their Saturday labours, came voluntarily along. and wrestled with the dual task of answering the telephone and obtaining authentic news of the lease of the explosion which had blown "out "plate glass windows, upset the equilibrium of households near and far. At last the story iwas pieced together. The Japanese Jacroplane disappeared early into the impo of discredited fiction and the ian kew airmail's punctuality was Justified. But the telephone was [quite tired at the end of it all. And it was not a peaceful Sunday after noon... nearly a hundred people jergetic enough to ring up the forth-China: Daily News" and ask whether it bad heard the noise this is to let them know that their Jefforts were appreciated all the out at his right breast, It then penerated the front seat of the ear and hit the dash-boat, falling spent fon the floor of th i Was subsequently retrieved by detectives of the French Police.
As soon as he was hit Dr, Porges Jet out a gasp, and said "that he Was Wounded. The chauffeur stopped the car once more and was on the pint of getting out to remonstrate oth the soldiers "when Dr. Forges said "No, no, go on," whereupon the chauffeur drove off as fast-as he could towards the French Conces-Son,
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