Stabbed in no less than nineteen places, Inspector, Wel Chih-cheng, at tached to the Chowkachao District Police Station, Chapel, was lying tu 1 serious condition in the Chinese Red Cross Hospital on Tuesday (Oct. 2). a The police officer had just attended a meeting held in the Chaokadoo District Police Station and was re-turing to his station Ina rickshaw when he was beld up by two fall ants at about 10 am. behing, Sesefeld Park.
While one of the assailants dragged him from his seat, the other stabber him in the head and body. Instead of going to the help of the affeer, the coolie and. two passers-by who saw the assault, called police to ike When a group of constables rived at the place, the assailants haa escaped. The wounded officer -w2¥ sent to hospital.
Revenge was reported to be the motive of the assault, ing Shanghai, Hankow, Tsinay, Tientsin, Wusih and Changchow.
At the conclusion of the meeting, iMdustrlal concerns, spokesman of the Chinese "Cotton Anil-owners "Association told. the *North-China Herald" that dele-sates of the Asiociation would leave for Nanking last night to appeal to the Government for the cancellation fof any proposal for increasing the cotton consolidated tax. in view of the depressed state of the domestic cotton mill industry and the rural 'A. declaration had been drafted bby the Association, said the spokesman, expressing the native cotton millowners' bitter opposition to the Government's proposed increase in the fax and declaring that, if the Government should insist on entire Jing the Increase, that would force the Chinese' cotton mills to pend operations.
The spokesman said that, accord-Ing to information received by them, {the proposed Increase in the con: solidated tax on cotton would be Jannounced on November 1 next.
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