Me was also a very active member of the Ast Shanghai (Cathedral School) Scout Troops. He was one fof the frst Sea Scouts in that (coop, became a patrol leader and a first: class scout, and attended summer camp in Japan, in 1933, and Peitaiho in 1034, the "North-China Daily News," who was among those injured, is progressing favourably and was. inter~ Viewed by detectives in charge of the case yesterday. He is expected fo leave the General Hospital with: 2 few days. Meanwhile, Maj.-Gen Saburo Miura, Commander of the Japanese Gendarmerie, accompanied by' Major Hayashi, called on Maj.
Bourne, Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police, at 1 am. yesterday partly in connection ihe shooting affair and chiefly a view to having a general cussion regarding the crime situation Shanghai During the meeting, which lasted until 430 am, recent assassinations and armed crime in general were discussed at some length, IL will be recalled that' one of the gunmen was shot and subsequently arrested on Nanking Road during the aflisy. Questioning revealed that he was employed as a "bouncer" at the Kwangsi Club, a gambling den at 135 Jessfeld Road and. that the As a scout he was not the type to in for the showy side of thing He did not win as many badges a me who were Jess eficiont. But he was quiet, capable, always ready to volunteer for a job of hard work, and he never lost his temper or his Sense of humour. He was the best liked boy in the school.
In December 1935, "Micky" took the "School Certificate Examination, and at the end of the following term, on hearing that he had been success ful, he left school and went to Eng. and to join the Royal Air Force, to which he was admitted om his ath birthday. Me was 21 years old when he died. the money had only been planned a few hours before-Eand. The Customs House com pound, where the attempt was made, outside the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Municipal Police any Japanese guards escorted the which the gunmen allempled hijack.
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