The attack on Mr. Koo was the third act of terrorism perpetrated in Shanghai in sixteen hours. At about 5 pin, on June 24 two Chinese were hot and seriously wounded in Join at Bl Lloyd Road, and one of these men died. shortly afterward. The pair wore assistants to an elderly Chinese lawyer whose name had been frequently mentioned in connection ith posts in the Japanese-sponsored Reformed, Government" of Central China, The lawyer" himself was! absent at the time and thus escaped {he assassins! bullets. The assailants fed and police were still looking for them yesterday, ted Room 407, Oriental Hotel (in the Sun Sun building) yest ning. Just about 11pm, entered the room, presumably answer to the ringing of the room.
What exactly happened next [could not be clearly ascertained from the wounded men last night, but it appears that four or more men entered the room a few minutes later and, pulling out their pistols, biszed away.
"The night-shift from Louza Police Station, just a few yards down the. road, Was Just coming on duty, and every available foreign and Chinese police officer rushed. tothe scene Mr, Yu's three servants and the hotel, lea-boy were found bleeding protus from several bullet wounds but the:
Detectives also were searching was no trace of their" would-be yesterday for the unidentified Orien- assassins tals who on June 24 wounded lice Surround Building four Chinese In Room 407 of the Sun Sun Hotel. Four assailants, wearing With the assistance of the Reserve Chinese clothes walled into the room Unit, the police ung 9 cordon fat ILpim, and opened fire on the! around the hotel, guarding all exits Secupants. Those wounded are said and streets and permitting no one to to be servants of a prominent Chinese enter or leave the area. An in Supporter of the nev Japanese regime. sive search, however, had resulted, Tels thought they will recover, in no arrests early this morning, Police search parties, and patrols of tone or two suspects who were the First Battalion, the Seaforth brought into the station being sub-Highlanders, continued to comb the: sequently released, Two of these Louza district yesterday. Newspaper were a couple of unfortunates who and. radio-broadcasting offices and had got into a Aight on their wa, other institutions in the Settlement the subsequent flow of biced bring and French Concession were being ing. suspicion on them, closely guarded.
The four wounded men were rushed to hospital. where their wounds though pronounced serious, were noi expected to prove fatal. The police
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