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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 11th, 1929.

SHANGHAI GANG MURDER.

POLICE SERGEANT AND RICKSHA COOLIE.

FIGHT IN A CAFE.

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SATURDAY, ·

A General Post Office notification, The North China Daily News of March 5th gives the following ac issued on Saturday, given the count of the shooting affair, briefly following particulars with regard cabled by Reuter, in which P/Sgt. to unclaimed correspondence, etc., Hales and a coolis were killed waiting at the Post Office, and also unelaimed radio telegrams at the Shot in the forehead while run-Radio Telegraph Office ning to the assistance of Chinese watchmen who were attacked by a gang of about eight rufaas bant on revenge, Probationary Sergeant Christopher Willins Hales, on duty near the Sun Sun Store, died yes terday morning at 7.15 o'clock in General Hospital. A riesha roolia was killed in the hotel lobby.

HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.

·FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH IND

Plague.

Baghdad : 6 cases, 3 deaths. "Bombay: death,

Rangoon: 3 deaths."

From Penh : "1 case, 1 death. -- Twelve infected rats found in

Bombay tone 3. 3 in Rangoon zone

and two in Colombo,..

Cholera, Calcutta: 40 deaths. Madras: 3 deaths, Negapatan: 1 death. Rangoon deaths. Pondicherry: I death. Bangkok: 13 cases, 5 deaths, Prom Pena: 12 cases, 35 deaths. Small-pox.

Baghdad: I ease.

Bombay: 12 cases, 40 deaths. Calcutta ; 11-cases, 7 deaths. Karachi : 49 casos, 19 deaths. Madras: 68 cases, 15 deaths. Moulmein: 5 cases. Rangoon: 9. cases, 2 deaths. Vizagapatam: 17 cases, 3 deaths. Singapore: 1 case.

Belawan Deli: 20 cases, 1 death. Samarinda 3 cases, I death. Haiphong: 14 casos, 10 deaths. Pnom Penh; 18 cases, 11 deaths. Saigon 1 case.

Shanghai 10 deaths. Canton: 15 cases, 2 deaths. Macao; 19 deaths." 'Osaka: 1 case. Dairen: 3 cases, 1'death.

Posts Restante Correspondence. Asiatic Motor Co., Dr. C. Bar reda, Bedikten Publicity Co., Dun- can Campbell (my. Wing Hung), Madame Clerget, Madame Claurel, M. Duncan, N. Engel, Mise Fu Ching Wei," A. Finnic, R. H. Gal- braith, Mrs. S. Horn, E. or L Serg Hales and the Chinese Hangan, Mra. Shelton Hooper, Wa. officer had left Louza station at 11 Hunt (c/o C. C. Fuller), A. L. p.m. on patrol duty. After having John, E. N. King, Elizabeth Keith, gone over their beat, they had Lesar, Madame Master-Bori, reached Kwangsi Road corner, the Mira. C. G Mackay, J. MacDonald, southeast corner of the Sun Sun K. G. Mann (Mark, Moody, Fed., block. According to the Chinese), H. R. Marah (Sime Darby sergeant's story, they heard the & Co.), C. Nopper, Narman Parker, R Pescio, Mr. Przelomski, O.. shooting diagonally through the Pritchard, Miss AL Popham, block, ie, on Kweichow and Tien-Fagoda Furniture & Merchandise tsin Road corner. They retraced Exp. Co. B. Parkes, F. Ripley, their steps and met three suspicious Miss J. M. Ripley, L Savitzky, F. looking men. " While searching C. Shawborn, J. Safier, W. Stewart, them, they heard additional shota,AN. Geston, G. H. Turnbull, L and the search being nearly com- D. Taylor, Miss D. Williams (China pleted without success, Sgt. Hales Inland Mission), H. S. Weir, Mrs left the Chinese to finish the search, Weston. running north along Kweichow Road. Of the actual murder noth- known other than the ing is Chinese sergeant found the body a minute later, subsequent investiga tions establishing that Sgt. Hales either met his death by a stray Haji Abdul Latiff Ahmed, Bedik- bullet fired from within theton," Publicity Company, J. 8.

A divery employed on the repair vicinity of the entrance to the Baunett Boster & Company,

of a bridge at Soissons is lying in Greyhound Café, about 75 yards Madam Chu Yun Kum, A. Sarritte hospital between life and death as distant, or be was met by one of Curlo, F. J. Didisheim (E.K. the result of an ordeal which he the gang, who fired the fatal shot. Hotel), Darwish and Lackschandl suffered on the bed of the river The latter theory is more or less (Ben Meyer's International Com-Aisne confirmed by the finding of an mercial Directory), H. Horne, empty cartridge case of small Misses Hinman, P: Hafemana, calibre in the middle of Kweichow Name E. Janex, Edward Lesur, Road, about 10 feet from the body. Emanuel, K. L. Ngo, Daria Rech fowa, G. B. Smith, N. Sanger (e/ Am Consulate), E. Sporleder (H.K. Hotel), Yu Tai & Co., V. Zilkin.

Substantial Raward Ofered. The Commissioner of Police has offered a substantial reward for, or Information leading to, the arrest of the murderers. Evidence of identification

taken at the Public Mortuary by Mr. A. J. Martin, H.M. Coronet.

Was

During the course of the shoot- ing, members of the gang, evident Jy gun-mad," fired promiscuous- ly in the lobby of the Sun Sun Hotel and in the Greyhound Café. Although bullets spattered on the walls and went through the wia dows, no one inside was injured.

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DIVER'S ORDEAL.

CAUGHT BY ROPES FOR 64

HOURS UNDER WATER.

He was lowered under the water to inspect the foundations of the first pier of the bridge. An hour and a half went by without any signs from him, and the engineer in charge, fearing that something serious was wrong, donned a diving suit and went down to investigate. When he reached the bed of the river, eighteen feet below the sur fact, he found the diver on his knees bound to a post by ropes, ・From."

become which had

entangled. Bangkok. were immediately sent down to the Batavia.around him. Several other divers

Saigon. rescue.

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Quinhon. fire hours under water, lost con Semarang.sciousnesss, and nearly another Canton hour passed before he could be Naumburgstale. brought to the surface, where ar-

Cebu.tificial respiration was applied.

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Money... Chen Hsih Sen Shun Hing Loong, 6550 Yielded Mok Heyne The affair had its inception King Hong three nights ago, it is officially be Vangdufast lieved, when three watchmen, Me Kong. guarding the Sun Sun premises, 3239 brought to Louza station three Wyllee men, whom they accused of having Penwal assaulted one of their number. Al- though their account of the affair WEL given a certain amount of credence, insufficient evidence was produced to warrant the charge- room sergeant charging the pri soners and be dismissed them with a caution. It is understood that the loafers later threatened the watchmen with vengeance.

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LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH, OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.

*** Man ** was the subject of the Leason-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, March

10th.

"He

Shortly before 1 a.m., the real trouble began on Tientsin Road in

The Golden Text was: the Sun Sun block. One of the hath shewed thee, O man, what in company's watchmen, patrolling good; and what doth the Lord re- this road from the cast had nearedquire of thee, but to do justly, and the intersection with Kweichow Road. As he approached a locked with thy God (Micah. 8: 8).

to love mercy, and to walk humbly door, a man on the pavement stop- ped him, and two others stepped prised the Lesson-Sermon was the Among the citations which "com. from the doorway. Shouting following from the Bible: What "we've got you," they made for is man, that thou art mindful of him and grabbed the overcoat which him and the son of man, that thou he had slung over his houlder.visitest him? Thou madest him to He broke loose, but was beset by have dominion over the works of two or three others, who fired their thy hands; thou hast put all things pistols at short range but missed.

under his feet?" (Ps. 8: 4, 6). Absence of Information.

The Lesson-Sermon also includ- There appeared to have been a ed the following passages from general disposition of the gang at the Christian Science textbook," vantage points round the hotel,Science and Health with Key to their daring bringing them within the Scriptures, by Mary Baker. 25 yards of the gate of Louca Eddy: "Life is, always has been. station. The movements of the and ever will be independent of various parties have not been matter, for Life is God, and man traced, as witnesses to the shootings in the idea of God, not formed have not presented, themselves. It materially but spiritually, and not The seems however, that at least three subject to decay and dust. groups of armed men had entirely Psalmist said Thou madest him covered the corner; also it appears to have dominion over the works that the first two parties mention of Thy bands. Thou hast put all ed, concentrated at the corner it things under his feet" (p. 200). self after their first attempts at murder had failed.

A watchman on duty within the lobby and café, hearing the shots,

TO-DAY'S RADIO.

came to the road. Men met him in The following programme will be the lobby and an armed battle en-broadcast to-day from the Govern sued for a minute or so. Three ment Broadcasting Station Z. B.W., of the marauders put him to fight. on 330 metres

In the lobby they fired indis 148 p.m.-Weather report. criminately, one bullet piercing a 5.30 p.m. to 6:30 pm-Demon curtain and "window, and enteringstration programme.

the café, to lodge above the 7.48 pm. Evening weather re- orchestra

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Owing to the general scurry for p.m.-Evening rover during this affray, no outside (Victor and H.M.V records sup. witnesses saw the murder of the plied by Mess 8. Moutrie & Co.). riesha coolie, whose body was found 10.10 p.m.-News bulletin. on the steps leading inside.

Pandemonium reigned in the Greyhound Café. Everything oc curred so quickly that no one really

10.30 p.m.-Close down.

under tables and took cover behind.

was aware of what happened posts. Hardly had a dancing part- While the shooting was going on, her screamed before the gangsters persons on the street, ricsha coolies were away.

and chauffeurs, and pedestrians, Bergt. Hales was only 24 years ran toward Nanking Road. In the old and had been nine months with lobby those present stampeded into the 8.M.P. In that time, however, the long corridor leading to lifts. his conduct had been such, that his A few of the patrons ducked "auperiors had expected great things (Continued at foot of next column.) from him on the force.

TWELVE MONTHS OF HUSTLE

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