The Archive · 1939

Cotton Merchant

Shot Dead Sha July 22.

What appears to be a political murder was committed at about 10.30 p.m. yesterday when Chen Yi-tsai, countant of cotton cloth shop in Foochow Road and also an official of the Cotton Cloth Merchants" Association. was shot dead by four or five gunmen while he Was enjoying the evening breeze in a lane off Robison Road near Penang Road after playing mahjongg with some friends, His colleague, Chang Tze-yang, was wounded in the right leg and is lying In the Red Cross Hospital. No arrests have been made.

Chen was completely taken unawares as he was attacked while sitting on a stool after playing several

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