Unprovoked by any action on his part, Mr. R. T. A. Tucker, an employee of Messrs. Andersen, Meyer Ca, Ltd. was cowardly assaulted by five Chinese, all of them brandishing pistols. outside the Foreign Y-M.C.A. shortly after 8 o'clock last might. Also assaulted when he ran to Mz. Tucker's rescue was a Chinese police constable. The five men responsible for the attack drove away in a car before a party of police arrived on the scene.
Mr. Tucker, who had just walked across from ihe Racecourse side of Bubbling Well Road to the Y.M.C.A., where he resides, was seized by a Chinese as soon as he stepped on the kerb, This man, flaunting a pistol, hit the Briton in the eye and on the chest.
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