The Archive · 1939

Columbia Road Murders

Two Korean roun and one Chinese, believed to be drug pedlars in the Japanese controlled Western district of Shanghai. met their deaths yesterday afternoon meet Fi Wah village, off Columbia Road, when Chinese gunmen fired several shots at the two Koreans, killing them instantly and later executing the Chinese, who was made to kneel on a bridge while bullets were pumped into his stomach.

Pictures show the dead bodies at the scene oj the murders with Settlement police and "Ta Tao" police inspecting the bodies as they lay where they had fallen.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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