Gen. Chou Feng-chi, a well-known political figure and former war-lord "whose name was mentioned for the post of Minister of War in a new Central Chinese Government, was assassinated in the French Concession early yesterday afternoon. He was said long to have been associated with activities directed against Cen. Chiang Kai-shek.
Unidentified Chinese gunmen killed Gen. Chou by firing a number of pistol shots into his body as he was seated in his motor-car in Avenue clu Roi Albert, near Rue Ratard, a few minutes before.2 o'clock. The General had just entered the car in front of his residence, 80 Avenue clu Roi Albert, with a companion when two armed men emerged from Rue Ratard, emptied their pistols and then disappeared into a lane. The companion, who was the former war-lord's Formosan bodyguard, was not wounded. Gen. Chou died of his many injuries upon admission to Ste. Marie Hospital.
The first policeman to reach the scene of the murder was a Tonkingese uniformed man, who vainly tried to pursue the assassins but lost them in ihe maze of alleyways in the district. Later a large police party conducted a thorough search, likewise without result,
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