Bubbling Well Shooting Victim of False Arrest Sends Two to Hospital; Abbot Hung Ming, who made his Alleged "Traitor" Unhurt fame by leading the Monks Rescue Corps during the hostilities in Shang-A would-be assess and a passerhai last year and who lost his reason by were wounded, not seriously, at early in the week after having 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in suffered a serious shock as a. result Bubbling Well Road, near Hart Road, of his detention by Chinese author hooting ties in Hankow recently, died in a scores of persons scurry to safer; Chinese.mental disease hospital in The target for the assassin's bullet Avenue Road early yesterday morn-was one Wang Kwei-yung, who is ing. employed His death will be mourned by his Pootung go c numerous friends and sympathizers He was walking on Bubbling W here, ecpocially Chinese Buddhists. Road a Chinese h His remains were put in a Buddhist duced a revolver and fired one temple in Changsha Road yesterday, which barely missed him, making where the funeral will be held today. hole through one of his sleeves.
The late abbot arrived here only Chinese policemen ran to the scene trol their posts near by, and opened recently from Hongkong after being fire on the hawker. One pistol bullet released by the Chinese authorities unded the hawker in the thigh, hen in Hankow, where he was caught while another struck a ped and detained on suspicion that he near the base of the spine had done espionage work for the man was seriously injured. enemy. He was released after would-be assassin wes taken in an several months' detention, "but he ambulance io the Police Hospital, never recovered from the shock he e he is now under guard. Anthus received: other Chinese presumably an accomplice of the would-be murderer, made base hospitals members of his corps By removing wounded soldiers to good his escape. The wounded passer. proved very useful during the by was conveyed to the Chinese Red Shanghai hostilities. He won ad-Cross Hospital. miration from both official and The motive for the attack was n cire. After the withdrawal described as political, the Pootung detective being evidently considered a "traitor" by his assailant. The case therefore is being investigated by the S.MP. Headquarters "assassination squad" as well as Bubbling Well Station detectives.
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