Hongkong, May 2.
The down-town section of Hongkong was startled from its usual complacency this afternoon when two armed Chinese, in European dress entered the jewellers shop of Sennet Freres in the Gloucester Arcade, shot M. M. J. Dubois, the French manager, and then proceeded to ransack the show cases.
'A number of shots were fired by the Chinese, some of which narrowly M. Dubois and an assistant graph pled valiantly wih their assailant, one of whom was found lying unconscious, when the police arrived on the scene.
M Dubois was wounded in the stomach, and his condition is believed to be serious—Reuter.
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