While the orchestra continued to play and scores of Chinese danced around the ballroom floor at Ciro's, in Bubbling Well Road, Chien Jen-lung, former detective in the French police and afterwards an officer in the Chinese Western District police, was mortally wounded when two unknown gunmen opened fire on him as he left the cabaret at 11 o'clock last night.
Chien had been at the cabaret with his wife for two hours and had left the ballroom, descended the stairs
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