CRISIS IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1925, Page 11

CRISIS IN CHINA.

OUTRAGE AT SHANGHAI. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Peking, June 16. The growing calm at Shanghai was tragically set back by the murder and wounding of Britons. William McKenzie, of the municipal electricity department, took Miss Duncan in a motor-car outside the settlement limits. Seven Chinese, dressed as coolies, stopped the car. McKenzie got out and asked what the Chines© wanted. The latter turned on flashlights and fired revolvers, missing Mackenzie, who rushed back and started the car under a fusillade. Mackenzie was hit and fell dying. Miss Duncan, though wounded in both arms, drove off, endeavouring to hold on to her dying companion. She proceeded 1000 yards when she mistakenly entered a new road which was being constructed and ran straight into a six-foot difch. Miss Duncan screamed, but failed to attract attention. She left the derelict car, ran to a house, and communicated with the police.’ Miss Duncan’s wounds were not serious, but Mackenzie died in a few seconds.