A Chinese doctor and his Japanese wife were seriously wounded by armed robbers at 1020 am. yesterday at their home in Lene 429 House 50 Race Course Road. The man was shot in the face, near the nose. and fears had been expressed that he would lose his left eye. His wife, wounded more seriously, was hit in the upper right chest Both were rushed to the Foo Mine Hosoital in an S.B. emergency ambulance.
The victim. Dr. Sung, is a returned student from Japen, while his wife is a Japanese midwife. Her condi. tion was almost critical yesterday and she was placed in £ special ward, where doctors were exerting their efforts to save her life.
It appears that two men came to the office of the doctor on Friday and made en appointment for yesterday morning. Yesterday, four came in and went directly to Mrs Sung, demanding her finger ring. When she refused, one of them attempted to pull the ring off her finger. The victim resisted and it was then that the armed men fired a shot, hitting her in her right breast When the husband heard the shot, he rushed to his wife's aid, but was met with fire. He.fell on the floor, while the robbers took to their heels without stealing anything.
Detectives, investigating the case, waived oside reports that the crime had been committed on political grounds, stating that, although the victim was known to sympathize with the Nanking regime, it was a plain case of armed robbery.
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