WO attempted assassin Shanghai, Aug. 19. ations, as a result of which the victims are not expected to live, and an armed encounter between the police and kidnappers in the Central District resulting in the wounding of the victim and the abductors, figured in an ag~ grave of the local crime situation yesterday which kept the police of the Settlement and the extra-Settlement authorities occupied the whole day.
Jessfield Road in Chinese territory was the scene of the first crime.
The victim Mr. Liang Chang-hai, 20, who connected with a leather and tanning factory in Robison Road, was waylaid by a miscreant who fired four shots at him point blank. One of the shots lodged in his chest.
He was also wounded on both arms and later was conveyed to a Chinese hospital while his hal in November last, at 4/419 Vu "Yuen Road, a Chinese boarding house, pital, following the attempt on his life, but little hope is held for his recovery.
Wife Not Questioned Mystery shrouds the attempted murder, there being no indigestion that robbery was the motive. More ight is expected to be thrown on the affair today by the victim's wite, the only witness t9 the shooting, who was herself fired at once by the man, the hot. grazing "her right. thigh. She was by the bedside of her husband all day yesterday in hospital ina slate bordering on a nervous break-own and was not subjected to much questioning by the police yesterday.
Mrs. Zung was in the bathroom getting dressed to go out with her husband at about "745. am. when there came a knock at the door of their apartment. Mr. Zung opened the door and was confronted by a Chinese dressed in shorts who en-pia ae dare in, camp, quired if his name was "Zung". Upon his. replying in the atirmative, the visitor whipped out a gun and fred at him point blank, wounding him in the abdomen.
Par a nan fel He staggered and collapsed on a bed in the room and the assailant fred two more shots st him, one of which lodged in his body while the other went right through both his arms. The second shot was believed to have penetrated his lungs.
At this juncture his wife was at tracted by' the shooting and entered the room, upon which the gunman fired a shot at her which grazed her right thigh. "He then hurriedly left the apartment.
Confederate on Watch According to enquiries which were made by the police later it is believed that a confederate of the gunman, who was also armed, was posted outside the house to keep a Took-out.
Mr, Kayo, who lives at house No, 7 in the same lane, heard throu shote ring out in rapid stiecession and rush-fed "out to the lane where he saw Chinese dressed in shorts snd. a Jacket, believed to be the perpetrator ct the crime,.coming out of House No. 4, carrying a mail delivery bag on hig, shoulder. The man attempted to make a get-away on a bicycle when Mr. Kaye got hold of the bars and tried to tie him up with the strings of the bag. Dumping down the bicycle tthe man took to his heels.
The Briton gave chase along Vu Yuen Road and caught up with the man opposite the Thomas Hanbury Public School for Boys. A struggle ensued when the men came into close grips and both fell to the ground. After a brief struggle Mr. Kaye overpowered the Chinese when another Chinese, believed to be the look-out man who was following on a bicycle, crept up from behind and fired at Mr. Kaye who released his grip of rir quarry who escaped with iis con federate in the confusion which followed. The shot grazed the button of the hip pocket of Mr. Kaye who picked up a mail bag which the man lad pursued had eft behind and de which was a pistol with three tive rounds Young Briton's Courage Remarkable courage was displayed yesterday morning by Mr. Paul Kaye, year-old Briton and patrol leader of the 7th Rovers, who single-handed federate of the gunman fred of nim from behind. The shot hit and grazed is hip. button, "The vielim of the attack was Mr, Zung Koh-liang, 42, a. native of Fokien and a German trained engineer who arrived here from He kong three days ago and whose body was riddled by bullets fired from the gun of an unknown assailant. Mr. Zung, who was living with his German wife who arrived in Shang-
Mr. Zung, it was learned, was conveyed with his wife to the Paulin Hospital where an operation was performed, but he is not expected recover from his wounds, 'Tur health report of ihe French Municipality for the week ending August 17, shows that the total number of deaths from all. causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Concession was—Foreigners 13 and' Chinese" 268. Deaths from notifiable diseases were Foreigners, tuberculosis 2 and pneumonia, typhoid fever one each. Chinese, tuberculosis 29; dysentery, 22: typhoid and paratyphoid fevers 21; pneumonia 4; beri-beri 3; marsh Heyer 2 and cholera, cerebrospinal meningitis, typhus fever, septicaemia
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