Resentment over being relieved by another guard following an altercation with Loh Pei-yung, a clerk in the business department of the Yien Yieh Commercial Bank. 280 Peking Road: prompted Mang Hsian Woo. a guard of the bank, yesterday morning to shoot and mortally wound the clerk.
The victim it was learned. reprimanded the guard for wearing white instead of khaki uniform. The guard's refusal to change resulted in his being relieved by a substitute. During a exchange of words between him and the clerk yesterday he is believed to have drawn out hig pistol and fired five shots point-blank at the clerk who collapsed, Immediately after the shooting the guard, 24 years old. a native of Peiping. escaped from the scene and no trace could be found of him in spite of a city-wide search.
The victim of the shooting was conveyed to St. Luke's Hospital in an emergency ambulance of the Fire Brigade, and was found to be suffering from gunshot wounds on his chest and abdomen. He succumbed to his wounds less than two hours after he was admitted to hospital.
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