The Archive · 1927

Chinese Editor Slain

Chinatown here was deeply stirred on the evening of August 8 by a tragedy in a Chinese newspaper office in which three persons were killed. Louie Man Har, president of the "Canada Morning News, Chinese daily newspaper, with the biggest Chinese circulation in Canada, and Wong Park, writer and news-setter, were shot dead by a fanatic, Wong Sey-sam, who in turn was shot and instantly killed by Louie Man Har as the latter dying from a bullet wound in his head. Police investigation disclosed that the slaying was the fouteome of a feud between the two factions in the Chinese Nationalist party here. Louis Man Har, his faction and paper, had supported strongly the Hankow faction against the Nankingites. Some months ago, the Nationalist League membership was split and rumours were rife that trouble would come when there arrived here an emissary of the Soviet, Council of Russia. The appointment of Louie Man Har as commissioner in Canada for the Hankow Red movement is lieved to have given a new impetus to the determination of the Nanking party to forther their own propaganda, The police, in the course of their investigations, have seized a large quantity of literature and documents which are being translated, after which an inquest another member of its staff were Killed without warning.

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