It was understood that he and his bodyguard had come across from Chapel and were about to hire a car which was to convey them to the Hungjao district, when they were halled by the ' French Concession tenant, Whilst it was understood that Wong was an official of an armed group of plain-clothes men stationed In the Hunglao area, the identity of the group could not be ascertained. It was also reported that the killed bodyguard carried an identifteation badge in his pocket according to which he was a detective attached to the "Ta Tao" police, this could not be confirmed up to a late hour last night.
None of the three men had licences for their weapons, nor where they entitled to carry arms within the International Settlement and, had they not opened fire against the police, the latter would not have made use of their weapons.
Notwithstanding the large number' of pedestrians on the streets at the time, only one Chinese male was slightly injured by a bullet.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.