Dalton, June 25.
Four Chinese, suspected of smug: gling war materials into China, were arrested here on June 9, Koo assailants immediately parted ing materiis for tie busy "Yangkingpang" district. are'said to have een
ways and escaped in different direc: or gunpowder loaded on Junks (9) sec cape Erat Lose of China ports, ihe French riot cars arrived with heavily} French Police on the scene. armed constables who surrounded the 70. of the gang are still at tage, immediate area and conducted [Ws Stopped. by a policeman. on June: coe xa thorough search for suspects. The 6, Әw Who Policeman was assassins, however, had eluded the|9ub and the smugglers made good law. their escape. by The truck was eventually traced, Man Dies of Bullet Wounds and the four men arrested.
The attack on Mr. Koo was the The police announce that the third act of terrorism perpetrated in smuggling "racket" had been going Shanghai in sixteen hours, At about|on since November, 1986, and the 5 pum. on Friday two Chinese were|war materials had been, selling at shot and seriously wounded in alton times their market price. room at 81 Lloyd Road, and one of Several Japanese stores are sus-these men died shortly afterward; pected of having sold the war ma-The pair were assistants to an elderly terials—Reuter, Chinese lawyer whose name had been frequently mentioned in connection with posts in the Japanese-sponsored "Reformed Government" of Central China. The lawyer himself was absent at the time and thus escaped the assassins' bullets. The assailants fled and police were still looking for them yesterday, Detectives also were searching yesterday for the unidentified Orientals who on Friday evening wounded four Chinese in Room 407 of the Sun Sun Hotel. Four assailants wearing Chinese clothes walked into the room at 31 p.m. and opened fire on the occupants. Those wounded are said to be servants of a prominent Chinese supporter of the new Japanese regime. It is thought they will recover, Police search parties, and patrols of the: First Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders, continued to comb the Louza district yesterday. Newspaper and radio-broadcasting offices and other institutions in the Settlement and French Concession were being closely guarded.
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