Shanghai, July 20, Mr. J. B, Rickmers, manager of the Rickmers Linie, local shipping agents, was detained at the Paulun Hospital carly yesterday morning after having sustained a dislocated shoulder and a lacerated Jip when the steering whee! of his Fiat car jammed and resulted jin the car being seriously damaged when coming into contact with the tramway island situated some yards south of Nanking Road on the Bund.
The car itself was badly damaged, the radiator being almost completely. smashed in whilst the steering wheel broke off and the windshield splinter ed, although it did not cause any additional injuries to Ma. Rickmers.
The cause of the accident has not been ascertained by the police as no officer was at the scene when the acident occurred at 2.15 a.m, but, according to Mr. Rickmers, he "was riving along the Bund on tis way home to his Broadway Mansions apartment and when he neared the Nanking Road intersection, he attempted to drive on the left side of the island only to find that his stecring gear jammed with the result that head-on collision occurred.
His Injures were stated not to be Rivalry Believed Murder Motive Shanghai, July 30.
A feud amongst rival yamping den operators was believed to have been tthe cause for the shooting on the evening of July 28 shortly after 8.80 o'clock along Tifeng Road near Vu Yuen Road, of Chang Kong-mei, operator of gambling den in the Jessfeld district. The scene of the shooting was in the immediate vicinity of the newly. opened sen at the cumer of Jessfiels and Tifeng Roads and detectives from Bubbling Well Station were working, hard on the case throughout yester= day, without, however, being able to find a clue which would lead them to the hide-out of the killer 'The shooting, it will be recalled, occurred when' Chang was walking along Tifeng Road accompanied by a friend. Three shots in all were fired, two hitting their mark and instantaneously hilling the gambling don operator.
In the past few months, with the increased number of dens' operating, Ju the Japanese-controlled "Ta Tao" territory, rivalries amongst operators have been steadily on the increase with the result that each den maintains armed guards the total number of which is estimated to be around 2,700, and a detailed account of whose activities appeared in the "North-China Daily News" on June 30, French Power Ca.
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