Canton, Nov, 25
'Wang Ya-hsiao, leader of the Hun Shun Hui, @ notorious secret society, was murdered as he was about leave' the home of a woman rend, at Wuchow, in 'Kwangsi Province, late last Saturday night. Riddled with bullets, and with several dagger: wounds, the' Body was found by police men who heard the shooting. The: gunmen and Wang's hostess had ted before the arrival of the police, Wang. who was 53 years old, was credited by the police of various cities in China with having been the brains behind the attempted assassination of Mr. Wang Ching-wel, a former President of the Executive Yuan, in, Nanking, last November, and. the murder of Mr. Kosakit Kaya, a Janese salesman, in Chimei "Road, Chapel, last summer. From his headquarters in Hongkong, Wang was said (0 diect the activities of various gangs in south China and along the Yangtee Valtey.
Of ate, Wang had been closely identified" with "elements formerly aflliated with the Nineteenth Route Army and the Social Democratic Chinese Racial Revolutionary Union, The Hung Shun Hui, or Abundance of Luck Society, generally is said 10 have originated "from the Hung League, the known history of which cane traced as far back as 1602.
The league was formed in the south and later extended to all parts of China, especially along the Yangtze Valley. The Hung Shun Hui came into being as an organization fo: the mutual aid of members, but some of these degenerated into vicious gangs.
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