Ti tsin, July 22.
"A bold attempt" by a Chinese military officer to assassinate Mr. Shigeru Kawagoe, was foiled last Saturday, the Japanese Consulste-General here announced this morning.
The alleged would-be assassin, the communique said, was Tsai Shu-ta According to the communique, Ts: signed the visitors' register at th Consulate-General seeking an interview with Mr, Kawagoe, His attitude, however, was regarded as suspicious by Japanese detectives, who arrested him.
"Investigation has established that Tsai, in conspiracy with Major-Gen. Liu Shen-fan, commandant of the 13th Lrigade attached to the 29th Army, hed plotted with others to assassinate Japanese and Chinese leaders in the Peipibg-Tientsin- district," the communique read.
Persistent reports, which g wide circulation in Shanghai y that Gen. Chang Tzu-chung. Mayor of Tientsin and one of the signatories fo the Sino-Japanese truce agreement of July 11, had been the victim of an assassination attempt were dented by the local Chinese Wanping "Front" Visited
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