Four Killed in a Mysterious Shooting Affair in an Alleyways Off Avenue Joffre Alleged Communist Revenge The French Police are investigating an unprecedented assassination which occurred at about ten o'clock on the night of November 11 alleyway off Avenue Joffre, near the Peacock Orient Theatre, in which four per-eons were killed outright and three others were wounded by a gang of unknown persons.. Already thre suspects have been arrested and is thought that further arrests wil be made within the next 48 hours. Tt is believed that the assassination was a political one, the most important person to be killed being Mr. Wai Shing, chief of the detective bureau.of the Shanghai-Woosung-Lunghua Gendarmerie Commissioner's office and head of the Anti-Communist Office in the Chinese City.
The affair occurred in the Wo Ha Fang alleyway, one end of which leads into Avenue Joffre and the other into Rue Bourgeat. At No. 43 of this terrace lived Mr. Wai Shing. Just as he was atour to leave his house, to take the night express to Nanking, in company with some members' of, his family, ind his secretary and his guard, he and those who accompanied him were greeted with a hail of bullets, fired at "them by a group of individuals who kept well in the shadows and whose identity is still unknown. After firing two score of shots, the gang subsequent: y succeeded in effecting their escape) leaving no clues behind,
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