Pistols blazed again in the troubled Louza district shortly before 8 o'clock yesterday morning when Chinese assassins waylaid and killed another prominent "Ta Tao" Government official and wounded two other Chinese, in Vu Ya Ching Road near the Shanghai Gas Company office. It was 1 the fifth attack on persons connected with the "Ta Tao" administration or ihe Japanese-sponsored Chinese Civic Association in about ten days.
Yesterday mornings victim, Mr. Zung (or Chen) Teh-ming, also know: as Chen Pai-liang, 24 years old, was ihe Chief of the Shipping Control Office, Bureau of Communications of the Shanghai Municipal Administration ("Ta Tao" Government), with headquarters in Pootung. He was said formerly to have been a detective in the Settlement Police and 4 member of the Chinese Bureau of Public Safety. Besides holding the important shipping control post in e "Ta Tao" administration, he was Chairman of the Inland Waters Boatmen's Trade Association, Kwang Teh Road, Chapei.
Mr. Zung was riding in his private rickshaw, en route from his residence in North Thibet Road to the Peking Road Jetty, at Vu Ya Ching and Amoy Roads when the assassins struck from their ambush at exactly 753 a.m. Two Chinese leaped close to the passing rickshaw and fired five shots in quick succession from a pistol and a revolver. Zung was wounded three times from behind: in the back of the neck, near the right kidney and in the right thigh. He rolled out of the rickshaw and slumped to the ground in a pool of blood. The rickshaw puller, who had been shot in the head, likewise fell to the pavement, A passing Chinese toppled over with a flesh wound in the thigh Scores of others fed in terror.
The murderers turned on their heels and ran into Amoy Road. They escaped and they had not been apprehended at a late hour yesterday.
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