Man Hit Six Times Appears In Court A robber who was last year shot times by a constable but who has recovered after a long period in' hospital, cannot evade law. Li Hung is being detained by the. Second Special District Court charged with attempted murder (in which he fired once at the constable missing him), armed robbery and also possession of military firearms. Judgment will be announced next Wednesday.
"I picked up a revolver in Nantao after the withdrawal of Chinese troops from the native city. I planned to sell the weapon and asked the accomplice at large to do it but there was no buyer. We were hungry and so we went to the On Yar Restaurant to have our dinner after which we had no money to pay the bill and, consequently, we committed a robbery. I did not intend to kill the constable merely wishing to intimidate him so that he might get out of my way."
In these words, Li clearly confessed to the crime which was committed in a most daring manner in the restuarant in Avenue Edward VIL
(French side) on September 10 of last year. Both Li and his accomplice, who is still at large, enjoyed a substantial meal but having no ready cash with which to pay the bill they went to the counter calmly and producing their revolver they succeeded in stealing $10 and escaped.
An alert waiter of the small resstaurant, however, secretly followed the men who fled to Yunnan Road where they met the constable attached to the Settlement police. The officer was informed that they were robbers and he quickly took up the chase. He was fired upon but the shot missed Asserting that they have been deprived of the right of "free trade" in the foreign settlements, the Shanghai Pig Dealers Association has forwarded two official letters to the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Municipal Council of the French Concession requesting them to secure a remedy to the difficult situation in which the public may also suffer a shortage of pork as a result of the detention of pigs by the newly-established Shanghai Cattle Market in Hongkew which seeks to mono-police the business.
The dispute between pig dealers and those in charge of the Japanese-sponsored new market, which is already of several weeks' duration, 1s becoming increasingly serious as now the matter has been officially referred to the administrations in the foreign settlements which have been requested to "uphold their administrative right." The letters hint that merchants dealing in other kinds of cattle and operating south of the creek may suffer also as a result of the monopoly which affects the liveli hood of many and which may also" constitute a serious menace to public peace and order."
The letters mention the detention of more than 1,000 pigs ordered by the complaining pig dealers who could not take delivery because when the "appointed" Japanese steamers carried them to Shanghai the pigs were detained by the new market authorities. These detained pigs, it was reliably learnt yesterday, have been returned to their buyers, but it was reported that the market authorities still want to collect 40 cents for each pig. The pigs were detained four days agó and as a result the complaining dealers have suffered a loss on which question they" have "reserved" the right to negotiate later. When the letters were sent to the authorities about 400 other pigs arriving here by train were again detained.
Meanwhile, the pig dealers have issued a circular notice to pork dealers asking them to maintain their original price, but it is a fact that the price has been increased as the supply has been limited as a result of the controversy Hersw Kay, famous Chicago dance orchestra director, obtained a divorce from Miss Dorothy Lamour in Chicago on grounds of desertion. Miss Lamour, who formerly sang with the Chicago band leader's orchestra, now is appearing in motion pictures. Mr. Kay said she deserted him in 1988 and had refused to return to Chicago. him entirely. Li was chased into the Concession again where he collapsed having been shot six times. During the past few months he has been in the St. Marie Hospital under guard.
The Chinese National Government adopts this view, and recently it was announced in Chungking, present capital in the West, that any further hunting and exporting of giant pandas by foreign parties will not be permitted, except possibly under very special conditions for recognized museums and zoological gardens in Europe and America, and even then, only one panda for each country, Thus, whatever may have been the case up to the present, specimens of giant pandas in the collections in Museums, both in China and abroad, will remain far from common, and must be valued accordingly. Shanghai, therefore, is to be congratulated on having two fine well mounted specimens of this remarkable animal. for there is also a full grown speci: men in a large case in the Shanghai Museum, shown in its natural surroundings, with a scenic background.
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