The victim of what appeared to be a carefully premeditated attack, Mr. Chen was shot from behind,' his assailant firing four bullets at_him in rapid succession.
AS the assassin was making his escape, his flight was interrupted by a Tartar named Talat Mansourem, a well-known local athlete, Mansoureft gallantly grappled with the man, but was foreed to release his hold when he received a bullet the abdomen. ther shot struck Mr, Glowser, was fatally fansoureft was rushed to hospital, where an operation wax immediately performed for the removal of the bullet, "which had lodged itself in his body. His condition was described late last night as "serious but nov hopeless," and it wag still grave this afternoon, when his doctors said he had only'a fighting chance of recovering, Mr. Chen Lien-shih is believed to have, been shot as a *raitor"—
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