The shocking assassination of Mr. Loh Pah hong on 'Thursday afternoon inspires the fear that another one of the frequent epidemics of assassination is about to befall Shanghai. A Tumour is extant that Mr, Lo was killed for patriotic motives. If that is true no' reason would possibly be worse, for if ever a com= munity needed the wise guidance of its leaders itis the Chinese community in the unhappy circumstances with which "it is beset, The victim of this outrage was a mai whose many services to his own people made him an out Standing figure in Shanghai, and his record shows he was one who never ceased from doing good. If, indeed. he was preparing to be one the seven Chinese men to stand between-the feeds of the civilian population of Shanghai, und the military necessities of Japan, it is not even then to be believed that he was actuated any' unpatriotic motive. In this connection it hould be remembered that in the Great War in Belgium. and certain occupied parts of France. Belgisn and French leaders did-come between the civil population and the military occupants of the areas involved, and, without any, slain open their patriotism, rendered services to their' awn people the value of which cannot be overestimated. In this case, in view of the man's cureer, is it not to be thought that he was again seeking how best to serve his suffering
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