The assailant, who was apparently unaccompanied, tried to escape by running into" Foochow Road and turning east, A Chinese witness who later disappeared tipped the police off and Sergeant Salisbury and Chinese constables started to chase the desperado. The man fired three shots at the tall foreign policeman at close range, missed him every time, and was in turn fired on by Salisbury and the Chinese constables while rinning. Altogether, the police fired some twenty rounds of pistol ammunition, one of the bullets striking the' gunman in the ankle and bringing him down, Sergeant Salisbury then arrested the man and seized the revolver—a 45. calibre Webley—from which he had' fired altogether six bullets. The assassin was taken to the Police Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambule ance, while the Kiating police chie? and a wounded passer-by were both taken to the Lester Chinese. Hospital, The condition of the Kiating official was considered critical last night, He is Kept under armed guard at the hospital, Turn-out In Steel Vests An alarm sent to Louza Police Station brought uniformed and detective personnel in steel waistcoats to the scene immediately after the shooting. Chief Inspector A. HE. Chamberlain and Detective Inspector George Bennett directed a search of the "neighbourhood, and. Inspector Bennett took charge of the criminal wing to the congestion of the istrict and the heavy traMe at the time of the shooting it was considered very fortunate that no more persons were injured in the exchange of fire.
Kiating, where the wounded offlelal lives, is a walled town of fair size situated 25 miles northwest of Shanghai. It 1s a Soochow-en-miniature traversed by countless canals and creeks, Nov. 18.
Yue Yao-tsong, died in the local Police Hospital yesterday morning.
Further arrests have been made by Headquarters detectives, who took charge of the case because of its political implications. The exact motive for the attack has not yet boon disclosed,
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