Atterapt to Kill Reformed Government Official Fails; Attack in Nanking Road HAIL of bullets was loosed in Shanghai, Oct, 18. Nanking Road, near Honan Road, at 5,25 o'clock yesterda evening at the heavily-armoured motor-car of Mr. Zau Shell-Kiung, a leading official of the "Re-
{formed Government."
Mr, Zau was in the car with four armed bodyguards, and although twelve of the missiles struck the vehicle they did not wound anyone owing to the armour-plate and inch-thick bullet-resisting window-glass.
Two would-be assassins, Chinese were seen to empty their pistols at the car immediately after Mr. Zau, himself armed, and his bodyguards had entered if outside the Hardoon Building.' Apparently they knew about the bullet-proof glass but not about the armour-plate, as all the hits on the vehicle were below the lass, in the shiny black body of the luxurious American model. An~ other car maintained by Mr, Zau, filled with armed bodyguards, was immediately behind the rst car but was not fired upon, None of the shots injured anyone on the erowd~ ed street although they made scores fof persons scamper to safety in shops and doorways Mr. Zau (or Chao), the intended victim of the would-be assassins, 1s the General Director of the Consolidated Tax Bureau of Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhwei, one of the most important agencies of the so-called reformed administration under Japanese leadership.
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