The Archive · 1940

News Causes Consternation

'The news of the death of the police officer was received at headquarters! a few minutes later and caused deep consternation. Supt. Tan was attach ed to the Special' Branch of the be held tomorrow morning when funeral arrangements will also announced.

The brutal shooting of Supt. Tan recalls the assassination on August 1g, 1098, of Supt. Loh Lien-kwo, senior detective of the SAP. whose body was riddled with bullets outside the Central Hotel, Canton Road, when two bold assassins managed to got away and have never been traced.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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