Amoy, Jan. 10, Xulangsu police today ' intensified their search for three Chinese gunmen who shot and wounded two prominent Chinese in a terrorist coup in the International Settlement Monday night.
'A vigorous man-hunt for the three assailants was launched Immediately after the shooting was reported to the police. Assisting the Kulangsu Muni-ipal Police were the Japanese Consular Police and the Japanese navy.
Wounded in the attack were Mr. Hwang Lien-song, Couneitior of the Special Municipality of Amoy and concurrently President of the Over-Chinese Association of Amoy, and Lung Pai-ying, former Fukien Uelognte fo the Kusmintang Nationa Congress.
Mr., Hwang, who was shot in the abdomen, was reported to be in a serious condition.
The belief that the attack was engineered by Chungking agents was heightened by the disclosure that Mr. Hwang had been successfully engaged in securing investments of overseas Chinese for the economic rehabilitation of Amoy.
'A notice was issued yesterday afternoon by Mr. L. H. Hitchock, Chait man of the Kulangsu Municipal Council, thas $250 would be awarded to anyone giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of the three Chinese gunmen Mr. Hitchcock expressed regret over the attempted assassination and said that "Munfeipal authorities would make every effort to arrest the as-
Amoy, Jan. 12.
The trio of gunmen who wounded two prominent Chinese on Monday night should be tried in the Amoy High Court when they are captured, Mr. Wang Tsu-tso, President of the court, urged today, The Kulangsu "Mixed Cowt, he pointed out, had taken up only minor cases previously.
Al crimes, whether minor or major, in the Tientsin Concession for the past score of years, he said, have been Wransferred from the hands of Concession authorities to th District Court, -Kulangs similar conditions, should follow the example of that' North China city, Mr. Wang said, if the Kulangsu authorities act dif-for ently," he addled, become a hot-bed for cri Shot and wounrled by the three assail ants on Monday night in the International Settlement were—Mr. Hwang Lien-feng, Councillor of the Amoy Special Municipality, and Mr. Lung Pai-ying, former Fukien presentative to the Kuomintang Na-{ional Congress.—Domei.
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