Alleged Head of Terrorist Gang Murdered In Sincere Building Hotel; Assailants Escape 1 GaS latest political murder occurred in the Oriental Hotel, Sincere Building, a few minutes before 5 @clock yesterday afternoon as returning crowds from the Fourth of July sports programme at the Race Course were passing outside and scores of American bluejackets were dancing in the building.
It was the sixth attack by terrorists in sixteen days, most of the crimes having taken place in the Louza district.
The victim, believed to be Mr. Chou Liu-wu, a former captain in the Nationalist Army; was shot two or three times from behind he was walking down the stairs from the third floor, where he had just had tea alone. Two Chinese, who apparently had been watching him from an adjoining table, were being sought by the Police, One of these, it was reported, fired four shots as the former officer was between the third and the second floors.
Mr. Chou, who was over six feet tall and massively built, was killed almost instantly by bullets entering the upper part of his chest. One of the missiles went wild and smashed a large mirror on the stairway. Blood spattered the mirror and steps and left a trail down the stairs as the victim was carried to Nanking Road and put into an ambulance.
The weapon, a small-calibre automatic pistol, was discarded on a window ledge and was found a few minutes afterwards by Supt, R. Shellswell. The murderer and his companion both escaped, apparently by walking down the stairs and leav ing the building by one of the several doors leading to the crowded streets skirting the building.
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