Smuggling Gang Suspected of Callous Murder Surrounded by three men, two of whom were armed with axes and tone with a pistol, Tang Ab-kung, a Taichong detective stationed in Shanghai, was chopped to death in Tifeng Road, close to the British Military Headquarters Camp, on Friday morning, The cause of the murder is believed to be a recent dispute between the victim and an opium-smuggling gang said to have been headed by a man named Yen.
Tang, who lived at 491 Ting Chia Ku alleyway, Singapore Road, left his house in a private rickshaw at 8.30 am, that day. He called on a friend in Tifeng Road and was re-tuming home on foot when he was ambushed. The victim received six deep cuts in-the head which proved fatal, The body was discovered by his private coolie, who immediately informed the Bubbling Well Police. The detective was conveyed to the Chinese Red Cross Hospital, where hho died shortly afterwards. two suspects were arrested by the! Chinese police in the afternoon.
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