The Archive · 1934

AT GRIPS WITH HANGCHOW MURDERERS Son's Luck of an Empty Gun: Overlooked by Mr. Sze's Assassins in Mad Flight

After a city-wide search in Hanj chow, the Chinese police—last Wednesday detained a chauffeur suspected" to be concerned in the outrage' in Po. An. village, near "Haining, on the Hangchow highway, on" Tuesday afternoon in which Mr. Sze Liang-zai, proprietor of the "Shun Pao" and part owner of the "Sin Wen Pao," two of the largest Chinese dally newspapers in the country, and his chauffeur and his son's classmate were shot dead in cold blood by a gang of gunmen. An! along the Shanghai-Hangchow "highway, police of the different cities were questioning and searching suspicious ooking persons, but up to a late hour that night, no additional arrest had been made. By order of Gen. Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Shanghai, Atty officers of the Bureau of Public Safety algo searched this end of the highway but without result.

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