What is believed to have been an attempt st political assassination occurred on October 4 in a usy part of the French Concession.
Three armed men entered the Fouse in an alleyway off Rue yes Lafayette, near Rue Tenant de la Tour, until recently occupied by nient of a Government Ministry at janking, and after shooting deal an mah who tried to keep them out, proceeded to search the house. The resent occupant of the house, jan named Zo Chiao-yun, wai hed, but the intruders gave him scant attention and intimated that they were looking for another person altogether." When they found that the man they wanted was not present they dumped the body of the amah into w bin near the rear entrance and decamped.
The shooting attracted a large crowd, but the police did not arrive fon the scene until after the men had escaped.
According to an account of the lotcarrence given by a neighbour, it appears that the men drove up to! the house at 8.15 am. and after hammering on the front door demanded to see the "master." The amah, who was 36 years old and had only recently arrived from Honan, denied them admittance on the ground that her master was asleep and so could not receive visitors. iching the door open, the men hot the amah three times, one bullet passing through her head. While tone of their number remained to nard the door, the others thin Went upstairs, shouting out a nane which was not readily distinguishable. Mr. Zo Chino-yon was dragged from his bed and ordered to tell where the other occupants of the house were, as "urgent. business" had to be discussed. His pru-testations that he was the only person in the hoose and that he had leased it from Mr. Tiau Ming-ching only two weeks ago resulted demand that he disclose Mi present whereabouts. This course he was unable to do.
A peculiar feature of the occurrence was that the men seemed to be intimately acquainted with Mr. Tinu's habits. They said that they knew he always came to Shanghai from Nanking on Fridays and [Saturdays and so must be available. They had obviously planned the attempt well in advance.
The police are now looking for the driver of a ear that parked at the entrance to the alleyway clu ing the attempt. They believe that this was stolen and will be found abandoned in either the Concession lor Settlement.
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