His office is at 230 Kiukiang Rod, across from the Cathedral School, and lhe had left ita few minutes before and walked, by Kiukiang and Kiangse Roads, to Nanking Road to enter his ear, bearing Settlement licence number' 10249, No sooner had he seated himself, with his Chinese guards, than [two unidentified Chinese "approached from behind and started fung rapidly fat the rear and left sides of the vehicle. Having peppered the body fof the car about where Mr. Zau was seated, the gunmen parted ways and sought to escape. They succeeded in doing. Meanwhile Mr. Zau's life had been saved by the steel inside the ear body.
One of the men ran Into the Laos Kai Took & Company _piece-goods shop on the corner of Nanking and Honan Roads, discarded his _pistol there and then vanished through one: lot the smaller doors, The weapon, a brand-new automatic Mauser of 32 calibre, was later handed over to the Settlement Police.
The other man fled in another direction, still in possession of his pistol.
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