The Archive · 1935

Encounter with Pirates Outside Woosung

Wounded in an encounter Customs cruiser with a band of! pirates outside Woosung, a 35-years Old Chinese is now lying in the Lester Hospital for Chinese with a bullet wound in the leg. He was brough: here on Tuesday, Nov. 5, by the M.M. s. Chenonceaux. The Customs cruiser Sighted on Monday a Chinese junk surrounded by a number of pirat vessels, and, opening fire, succeeded In sinking one of the latter. Chun Fung-foh, the wounded man, was picked up, and although he alleged he was one of the boatmen in the at. tacked junk the belief is held tha! he was a member of the band of pirates.

Suspected to have been involved in the attempted assassination of Mr. Wang Ching-wel, President of the Executive Yuan' and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lee Wah-tseng, deteribed as a teacher, wa ordered to be handed over to the Nanking authorities by Judge Chien in the First Special District Court last Wednesday. The suspect was arrested in an. alleyway off Barden Road tate on Tuesday night. The hearing was held in camera.

Nine men and one woman, suspect ed of being involved in the' attempt-fed assassination of Mr. Wang, were sent to were Hu Yung-ching, one of the suspects arrested in Chinkiang, 1s alleged to be the head of the Chen Kwang News. Agency of which the would-be murderer, Sun Feng-min, was a member. Sun "succumbed to wounds last! Saturday, a day after the shooting.

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