In surveying the past very dimeult year, the President said Cominitiee had carried on a. great dear of good work, Many cases had been before the Committee and a number of deserving. persons been repatriated, while others were assisted locally.
The First of July—Dominion Day =-had been observed at a well-attend:
social function which resulted in iderable addition to the Club's Charity Fund.
fon the Cenotaph on Armistice Shanghai, May 30.
Within the brief period of one] minute, three shots ended three lives in House No, 9, Lane 542, off Burkill [Road at about 5 p.m, yesterday.
The killed were Mr. Yue Poh, aged 47, native of Anhwei, formerly a lawyer, who Fecently became the director' of the Salt Bureau of the Nanking "Revorm= led Government"; Hsu Chang-piao, 22-year old bodyguard, native of Shanghai; and Wang Hsiang-ping, 50-year old bodyguard, native of Anhwei, a former police sergeant of the Settlement}
The triple tragedy is believed by} the police, who made the investiga. ion last evening, to have resulted from personal grudges. Having first shot dead the younger bodyguard and then his employer, the former police sergeant was believed to have turned the pistol against himself, All. the trio were shot in the head. Death was almost instantaneous, The shooting occurred in such that, despite the} presence of many occupants, fow had idea of what was happening.
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