Shanghai, Oct. 1 A Chinese doctor, Liu Siu-eu, carrying on a practice at 47 Tiendong Read, was gravely injured yesterday evening by two men who, after [enticing him to a room in the Hotel of China at 160 Kweichow Road, threw chemicals over his face and battered him about the head with a revolver, Statements made by the victim to police after the attack showed that the doctor had been called from his office to the hotel by two men who asked him to attend a sick patient there, The two men escorted him to the establishment and showed him into Room 410 where they slammed the door and attacked him before he could raise any alarm, Almost blinded by the chemicals which were thrown into his eyes, the doctor was unable to defend himself against their onslaught and the two men made their escape leaving him lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
An alarm was raised later and detectives from the Louza station visited the scene of the attack alter Liu was removed to the Police Hospital where his condition serious, Although no traces of any shots having been fired could be found the doctor asserts that his assailants fired one shot.
The motive of the attack is not known by the police, the victim being at a loss to explain why the two men bad injured him, Enquiries were being conducted at a late hour last ight to trace the two assailants, Armed Robbers Shanghai, Oct. 1 Two armed robberies were reported to the Settlement Police last night, the rst occurring at 6.45 p.m, when three unarmed Chinese held up'a pedestrian fon Vu Yuen Road and robbed him of property valued at $60. The other took place at 769 Kiukdang Road at 845 pam, when three armed Chinese entered the residence and stole $400 cash, No shots were fired in either of the robberies and all were com: mitted by men speaking the Shang-hal dialect,
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