"Paramount Scene of Bold Population Endreases from 30,000 to 150,000 Attack Chiefly Aimed at Elaborate preparations are being Pretty Taxi Dancer made by Chinese officials and populace in Nantao to celebrate the establish-In the spacious Paramount Ballment of the new central government room, filled to capacity with dancing by Mr. Wang Ching-wei, states the and celebrating couples, a Chinese "Sin Shun Pao." It is stated that gunman created a panic early yester-the celebration will last for a week day morning when he fired five pistol commencing March 4 but the exact shots at Miss Mary Chen (Chen Ma-date for the inauguration of the new li), attractive young leading dance regime is not mentioned. Previous hostess, while she was seated at a reports indicate that the new ad-table with two Chinese men. friends. ministration may be established in One of the men was fatally wound-the later part of the next month ed, the other escaped with a slight the sites of the various ministries injury. In the confusion which fol-and departments having been chosen lowed, the murdered escaped. in Nanking by new officials.
The daring attack was perpetrated at 1245 am, when the establishment The police in Nantao are beginning was filled with merrymakers. Miss to compile census of the populace Chen and her friends were sitting at which is reported to have been ina table near the entrance to the creased from more than 39,000 to ballroom. The band was playing the 150000. Many houses are occupied latest waltz, and the lights had been but only shops selling daily neces-dimmed as scores of couples were saries have been reopened. The surging across the parquet floor. A. police are persuading merchants to stealthy figure wearing foreign cloth-reopen all shops and conducting ing approached the pretty Chinese house-to-house investigations with a girl, drew a military Mauser pistol view {o compiling census and from under his coat and started blaze banishing bad characters. "These in-ing away at the young woman. vestigations were started on Saturday.
Screams were heard, shouts, glasses and bottles crashed to the floor, dancers at one end of the room receded in terror while at the other end they kept on waltzing, unaware of the tragedy that had taken place. Then the music stopped abruptly in the middle of a bar. Sie
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