Hongkong, Jan, 3.
Lieut. Antonio Jose da Cunha was killed at Macao on Sunday night by gunmen who earlier had stabbed an alleged Wang Ching-wei supporter who. was recovering from bullet wounds in a hospital, reports here said yesterday.
Lieut. da Cunha had stopped four men as they left the hospital after stabbing Mr. Chai Tse-chok, alleged affray last month.
The gang. entered the hospital, stabbed Mr. Chai and left him for dead. As they gained the street outside, they were stopped by Lieut. da Cunha, whereupon one of the gangsters pulled a gun and fire point-Diahk, instantly Killing the affeer.
All four gangsters escaped.
Surgeons operated on Mr. Chai who. ig expected 10 live. A widow and me children survive Lieut. da Cun. ha—United Press.
By Japanese Peiping, Dec. 30, Peiping these days is" a besieged! city—besieged from inside, that. {to say. No Chinese male adult is al-Towed to enter or leave the city. 'These restrictions which were troduced on November 29, when a. Japanese cicer was murdered, have not only not been Iifted, but' they: have been Increased, It is the Tien-{sin barrier business over again, only. ona much larger scale, and so far only directed against the unfortunate Chinese inhabitants.
City gates are strictly guarded by.
large group of Chinese police and Japanese gendarmes. Those allowed through the gates at all, women as well as men, are carefully searched all vehicles are stopped and everyone made to get out; innocent-looking Bags of four and other rains are vigorously and thoroughly prodded.
make quite sure, of course, that nobody is hiding in'them, Uniike at Tientsin, however, there are no long, queues waiting to pass, for those al-Towed through are only a very limit-Jed mumber: women, children, and Tew lucky males who have been able obtain the special gate permit, Chinese employed by foreigners, including chauffeurs, are also not. al-Towed through the' gates, unless they have the special permit. The bus, which formerly carried students to from Yenching University, which fies outside the ety, is not allowed nto the city, On other buses, the [few fortunate passengers who have permits, all have to get out, take their permits, with due humble bowings {0 the Japanese gendarme, the police office, where their finger prints are checked, walk through the: gate, and get in on the other side, Timid Spirits Dismayed Wheelbarrows and other vehicles with vegetables and other market roduce—also the night-soil carts, by. the way—unless their owners have {to obtain permits, are taken delivery of outside by utile boys, who push them through the gate, and hand them over to the persons: waiting for them inside, They do a. roaring business, which'"adds to the cost of the goods. As a result of all this, and_also of the fact that many'
the more timid spirits do not ven~ {ure to bring their wares to the city at all, the cost of the common food Stuffs; continues to soar. 'The. 80,000 Japanese residents have to pay for he vagaries of their authorities, well as the Pekingese, Gate permits are only granted after' the most minute and careful scrutiny, and every possible diticulty is placed Jin the way of getting them, A\Chinese applying for such permit has 10 provide (we photographs, fingerprints, and a shop guarantee, and the guar fantor has to go along to the issuing. bureau with the person applying for the permit. An applicant may have go along four, five, or more times, before it is granted; it is not dif cull to imagine how' reluctant any-tone is to stand guarantee.
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