Responding to an alarm, a large party of police turned out from the close by, under Insp. and Detecti They started the immediate neighbour-
4 were soap reinforced by the Meserve Unit, under Mr. W, F
Assistant—Commissioner süevwars—lodging-houses populous district ^Tily werwfinised and many qmm The aums the Beaturth patented the freet quate of terrorific Chiese known to be fr Japanese authorities started. the wight of June 18, when Mr. Jen Pao-an, Chief of the Land Office of the "Ta Tao" Government, was riddled with Mauser bullets in a famous Pekingese restaurant in Foochow Road, Louza district.
On June 24, two lawyer's assistants were shot in an office building at 81
Lloyd Road, Louza district, one of them succumbing to his wounds. A few hours later four Chinese were shot in a room at the Sun Sun Hotel, Louza district. One of these, banker, died two days later On June 25, Mr. Koo Shing-yi, rice magnate and one of the heads of the Shanghai Chinese Civic Association was murdered in a lane near the intersection of Rue Montauban and Rue clu Consular, It is known that some of the promment Chinese connected with the "Ta Tao" administration or other Japanese sponsored enterprises are extremely cautious in their movements for fear of assassination, While some óf them move about accompanied by bodyguards, in armoured cars or in ordinary vehicles, others stay in Pootung, Nantao, or north of the Soochow Creek and in no circumstances show their faces in. the Settlement south of the Creek or in the French Concession.
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