CHINESE CONSUL-GENERAL WOUNDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 60, 12 March 1913, Page 5

CHINESE CONSUL-GENERAL WOUNDED.

ARREST OF AN ACCOMPLISHED CHINAMAN. (.By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. I (United Press Associuuea.; (Received D. 30 a.m.) Melbourne, March 12. Thomas Jones Chia, an accomplished Chinese, aged 30, was arrested on a charge ot unlawfully wounding with intent to murder ins victim in an affray with Hung Liang Hwang, the Chinese Consul-General.

Chia, who was lately prominent through his marriage to a well-known Australian girl, called on Hwang and is alleged, after a long argument regarding his private affairs, to have rired two revolver shots which were resultless; ho then fired a third as Hwang grappled with him, the bullet passing through Hwang’s upper arm and shoulder. The wound is not serious.

The Chinese Government in September recommended the Consul to terminate Cilia’s engagement as secretary to the Consulate. Chia has since been acting-mana-ger of the Eastern Trading Company, and has held a number of important positions, including the lieadquartership of the Perfectual Training College at Changchow, • a professorship of English at the Peking University, and chief secretaryship to Tong, Chinese Consul-General 19101912.

Particulars relating to Cilia’s marriage were published in our'columns of January loth as follows:—Mr Thomas J. Chia, a well known Chinese gentleman, and formerly first secretary to the Chinese Consulate, was married at Melbourne last week to Miss Eunice Camille Russell, a young lady of Brighton, who at one time played iq Mr Julius Knight’s Company. Subsequent to the wedding, a reception was held at the Oriental Hotel. Canon Hughes, of St, Peter’s Church, who performed the marriage, in proposing the toast of the bride and bridegroom, said the wedding was going to break down the insular prejudice of the English race, and it would tend to the blending of the two nations.