In a murder in Rue Wagner am.
ibsequent gun battle between the Police and one of the assassins in Avenue Edward VII, almost directly opposite the Nanking Theatre, two Chinese were killed and four wound:
shortly after 8 pam, on July 28.
Lured from his apartment in the Far Eastern Hotel. in Thibet Road by two "friends," Zao Van-ping, entertainer employed in the Great World ten years ago, and now con: sidered to be a wealthy man, was the man shot dead by three assassins in Rue Wagner. One of the murderers who escaped to Avenue Edward VII immediately after the killing, was shot dead by the police More than thirty shots were ex-ange between he assam and the engagement were wounded. by stray "bullets, mootly in the thighs fand legs. On'y one of he wounded was detained in hospital fort night. His. condition was no serious.
Three Chinese constables of the International Seitiement partielpated in the shooting together with Ero" others from the Frosch side, Revenge is believed to have been the motive of the mud "This Zao Van-pin, alleged to, be operating a Hua. Wel lottery. den, left "his house, 19 Tse Lo "Fang, aguer, shortly after 3 pin. th After the bath he took the car to his apart ment in Far Eastern Hotel, sent his chauffeur away for dinner.
No sooner had he settled dawn in his. room' than. two of his former associates called on him. "Following 4 short conversation, the trio left the hotel iggpublie rickshaws. When Within sight of his own residence, the rickshaws were stopped by three Jgunmen. As Zao alighted from the several shots ran out, He four times, killed almost instantenously. different tions, They were, The murderers dispersed
however, pursued by the French police, who arrived on the scene in response to the alarm.
All but one assassin were lost it of. Two Chinese constables of the French Police pursued the one man through an alleyway on to the Avenue Edward VII" The police whistles attracted the attention of three Settlement constables on duty jon the Settlement side. of -the avenue. P.C. 914 observed the as-sus sin crossing the street, and open: fed fire, after shots had been exchanged between the two French constables and the murderer. The assassin was killed almost im.
the gang of assassins a mediately. No other members, of found that night, The Finger Prints Bureau of the French Police on July 29 identified the assassin who was shot as Lee Tseukorg, 30 years old, who had served several gaol sentences for petty offences in the French Con-
Placed in adjoining rooms separated by a thin partition in the premises of the Public Benevolent Cemetery in Rue de Ningpo, the bodies of Zao Van-ping and' the Assassin, which were brought almost one after the other by the French police the previous night, were examined by a procurator of the Seeced Special District Court the next morning. Investigation is being continued by the authorities,
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