Funeral services for the late Mr.
Chen Tebong-tso, sub-editor of the "Ta Mei Wan Pao," who died at the Ste. Marie's Hospital at 8 p.m. on Wednesday after being wounded by an unidentified gunman at the corner of Route Pere Robert and Route de Sieyes on Monday morning, will be held at the parlours of the International Funeral Directors at 2 pin. today.
The late Mr. Chen, who was wounded in the right cheek and hip, battled with death for over two days, but great loss of blood precipitated his end and he succumbed at8 pin. on Wednesday, although two blood transfusions were made by the doctors in an effort. to save his life.
His death marked one more name stricken off the black list which was issued some two months ago by the Nanking Government.
It was at about 11.30 a.m. on Monday that, while proceeding to the bus stop at the corner of Route Pere Robert and Route de Sieyes, he was shot at by unidentified gunmen, who fired three shots at him. An Annamite policeman heard the shots and ran to the scene, but he was checked by two more shots which had come from the car, The wounded newspaperman was taken to the Ste. Marie's Hospital, a few steps from the tragic scene. All efforts, however, proved fruitless and the victim expired on Wednesday People Must Take R
Says Home Secretary London, Aug. 22.
In the course of a statement on air-raid warnings, circulated to the House of Commons today, Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security, points out that the public must be "prepared not only to be warned without being bombed, but also on occasions be bombed without being warned."
London, Aug. 22.
Reports that the United Staies and Britain had arranged for a 50-year lease of the Canton and Enderbury Islands in the Pacific to the United States were denied by authorized quarters today.
They pointed out that the decision reached by both Governments in April 1939, merely provided for a 50-year joint Anglo-American administration of the islands.—United Press.
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