Mysterious Attack Upon 'A
Retired Compradore A Chinese compradore and his wife were seriously wounded rud two of the servants of their—household slightly injured on Monday, when two unknown" visitors suddenly opened fre on them, having gained entrance the house on what proved to be a feeble pretext, According to cials of the French Police, the crime bore all the marks of having been carefully thought out beforehand, and in view of the fact that the men left no clue as to their reasons, it is thought to have been an act of revenge.
Mr, Soong Shih-heu, retired compradore and cotton merchant, ving at House 10, Lane 142, Route Remy, was informed by a servant shortly before 4 o'clock in the afler-hoon that two men wanted to see him, and that they said they had an urgent letter to deliver. Mr. Soong, who was upstairs at the time, went down, and one of the two men, both of whom were aressed in foreign clothes, handed him a letter, He had hardly opened it, however when both men drew aulomatie pis lois out of their pockets and one of them shot directly at him. There was a sudden burst of firing, and then both turned and fled. Other servants of the house rushed into the hall, and found Mr, Soong lying on the floor, in a pool of blood. "One bullet had penetrated his liver and the other his stomach. His wife, who had been coming down stairs, lay near him, with a serious bullet wound the head,
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