Another crimson chapter—was written into Shanghai's bloody history of political assassinations with the murder of Mr. Kao Shing-pao, well-known Chinese proprietor of the Lido Ballroom and President of the Lido Football Club, by a group of gunmen outside the Y. P. S. Hotel at the corner of Hankow and Vu Ya Ching Roads shortly before 10 o'clock last night.
Mr. Kao had just left the hotel and was getting into hís car, which was parked across the street from the hotel entrance, when he was made ihe target of à hail of bullets from a group of five or six men. Three of the bullets struck Mr. Kao, wounding him in the left ear, left abdomen and groin, while one of the shots struck the door of the car. He was killed almost immediately, A sers vant who was holding the car door open for Mr. Kao miraculously escaped unhurt, Actually only one man was seen to do the shooting, although there were five or six in the group.
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