A British woman, Miss Daisy Sim-mo.s, and an Austrian watchman named Walter Lunzer were killed early this morning after a sensational shooting affray at Farren's, famous local right club off Great Western Road. Miss Simmons was hit by a bullet fired by members of a gang of about twelve orientals who had invaded the resort, and the watchman was shot and mortally wounded when he gallantly attempted to graph ple with the men in the roulette room on the first floor. Both Miss Simmons and Lunzer were taken to the Country Hospital by private car but all efforts to save their lives failed.
During the shooting pandemonium reigned in the ballroom and in the roulette room where hundreds of Shanghailanders dashed for cover, overturning chairs and tables as shots were fired by the gang towards the ceilings of both rooms.
The men, believed to be Koreans, entered the night spot through the front door, each one carrying a Mauser pistol. They made their way upstairs into the roulette room where a large crowd was gathered over the tables, Several shots were fired by them at the ceiling and at this moment Lunzer gallantly attempted to grapple with the men. He was immediately shot down. During the mad rush that followed the shooting it was not noticed that Miss Simmons also had been hit but after the gang had left the room she was noticed lying on the floor by the roulette table shot through the chest, The bullet, it was stated, emerged from her should-
Dashing downstairs after the shooting, the gangsters fired several shots in the air in the ballroom, probably to delay pursuit, and then they rushed through the crowd in the lobby, into the drive to Great Western Road, where they escaped in the darkness of the night. After their exit it was ascertained that no money had been taken from the roulette room or from the ballroom. The shooting, it was believed, had been ted by a rival gambling resort in that district.
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