A few days since a particularly }cool and cruel murder was commnit~ ted in the city, when the Chfef-ofs staff of Chairman Liu was shot dead in the home of General Tswei, The latter had been one of Sun Tien-ying's Brigade commenters, who had been seduced from his allegiance to Sun, by the Governor's Chief-of-staff. "He was promised grade of Divisional Commander, but when He brought his men under the local influence he was robbed of his command, and eventually given, the [subordinate position of second-in-command of the provincial militia Last Wednesday night he sent out hat' purported to be an invitation list. to a banquet at the Tswet residence, This list contained the names of the Provincial Chairman, Jand the heads of several Governe ment departments, together with that of the Chief-of-staff Peng, who was the only man wanted for the occasion. Needless to say there was no banquet, and the formal accept= ances of the Governor and the other invited guests were faked in order to mislead General Peng.
He fell into the trap, and arrived in good time, as he wanted to be head of the Governor. His car was requisitioned, to send away, as if to assist in bringing other guests, thus. disposing of several of the followers, fof the Chief-of-stati, Ho was met at the door by General Tswei, and carted within, followed by only one of hhis immediate attendants. The car Jand the other men were sent on a fruitless quest of other guests to a tar point of the city, and it was forty-five minutes before these other attendants could return, to find within General Tswei's home. none others than the dead bodies of their master and the single guard.
General Tswei had carefully removed all his personal effects and the members of his family some time previously, and. apparently within" a few minutes after the arrival of General Peng, he and is follower were shot and the murder" Jers got away. This all "happened at about 6.30 o'clock in the evening, fand by eight 'o'clock the gates of city Were closed. to all comere and goers, and they remained closed for two days, Many arrests have of those thought to be, way, implicated in the mrs der, but. the immediate, group, of whose guilt there can be little doubt, made a clean getaway within three quarters of an hour plant As General Tswei was from tongand bands in the west of the province, and still hag a nephew, noted Bri presumed that he ha made for the west and that fro he will later be heard
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