A Chinese detective sergeant was shot and badly wounded in the Zang Zih bath house at 40/63 Chekiang Rond last night, when two gunmen fired at him, one shot hitting him in the stomach, and another wound-Ing an attendant. The shooting occurred shortly before 630 pin, after "the detective had come off duty and had taken a bath, He was coming out of a cubicle when two Chinese, who had been waiting for him, opened fire, The bullet which hit him was from a 45 calibre revolver, and penetrated his stomach, emerging from his side just below the heart, The other gangster fired fa ttle Inter, but missed, and hit an attendant. This Intter bullet, when examined, was found to be from a Mauser, "The detective 1s very soriously injured, and it Is not expected that he will live, Dies n Hospital Feb, 28, Chang Keh-ching, Chinese detec. tive sergeant attached to the Louza police station, died at the Paulun Hospital at 3.30 pin, on Wednesday, Shanghai, Feb. 27.
Although the north of the Soochow Creek area returned to normal yesterday and all trifle was allowed on the "Toads, "Japanese sentries con. Hinued their rigorous searches of Chinese in an attempt to find. the second gunman, who had partieipated in the attack on. two "Japanese on Tsitsihar Road on Tuesday afterhhoon when Private Sholeht Toda was killed and Corporal Tatsumi Ishii seriously wounded.
Particular attention was given Chi-hose on the Hongkew Creek bridges where Japanese sentries searched every passer-by, rickshaw passengers and "stopped buses to go through every" pocket of the Chinese. This Procedure took some time to be car-Fled out and buses were detained for five or ten minutes while the searches went on.
So far as tt could be ascertained, however, the second gunman had not. been arrested by the Japanese, The other Chinese, arrested by two Japfanese sentries and wounded inthe chase, "was progressing favourably terday. Cpl. Ishii, although sus.
jing a. serious chest wound. was expected to recover,
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