Canton, Sept. 23.
An attempt by unknown persons to assassinate Mr. Sun Fo, Mayor of Canton and. only son of D:. Sun Yat-sen, was made yesterday evening, when several shots were fired at him. Mr. Sun Fo was riding westward in his motor-car on the East Bund, when he was met by his assailants who were coming towards him in another motor-car. The facts point to a skilfully-laid ambush. The local press had been forbidden to refer to this incident and a strict censorship is being maintained over all publications.
A serious loss to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's aviation corps occurred on the afternoon of September 20, when Col. Yang Sin-yat and a score of other officers and men of the corps were killed on the East River by the explosion of a motorboat. The motor-boat on which they were travelling was carrying explosives to the eastern front for the force besieging Waichow. The cause of the explosion is unknown, og every occupant of the craft was killed. It was rumoured that Gen. Chen Chiung-ming's troops had mined that section of the river, but this theory is repudiate ed by Dr. Sun's forces, who declare that the explosion took place within their own territory. Col. Yang was om at Honolulu, and educated in America and, while there completed a course of avia~ tion.
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