The Archive · 1941

Chinese Detective Killed by Gunman

Chen Chih-hung, Chinese detective constable 10, attached to Louza sta-of. the. Shanghai Municij Police, was shot and killed at 6.10

Work in a rickshaw at the corn am. eres while and Kiukiang The who was 38 yeara of, ai o dono three service with the police, was fatally. wounded in the head, Token to hospital in an S.F.B, emergency ambulance, Chen died on the way and was pronounced dend on admission.

In the shooting aray that followed, one of the assassins was shot dead. by a Chinese policeman, another was seriously wounded, while three pedestrians suffered minor. injuries from stray bullets. Probationary Sergeant L. P. Jackson escaped miraculously when one, of ithe, finding himself in a desperate position, made a vain attempt tu shoot his way to liberty, The (ore officer was shot G at twice, due of the bullets piercing his tunic sleeve, while the other knocked his cap off. He escaped unscathed, however.

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