Eight murders of a political nature, including last week's triple killing at the Lester Chinese Hospital, have been "definitely traced to " pistols seized by the police in the raids on Communist quarters which followed the hospital tragedy. AN the crimes Involved have been committed Shanghai within the last two or three years.
While, for obvious reasons, th police withheld further information Which "would identify the other crimes, it was disclosed that tha guns Used in the hospital murders and those used in five previous 1 political assassinations had been Identified as being among the twenty-seven pistols taken in the raids. The experts of the SALP. Arms Section returned a report, based on painstaking examination of tha weapons and the bullets and empty shells found at the scenes of the various crimes, which conclusively proved the connection.
Murdered in Bed The Lester Hospital killings which led to the raids and the arrest ut of an alleged "assassination foecurred on the afternoon of Sept-Jember 26. Yoong Koh-woo, a mysterious stranger believed to have been in' Shanghai on political mission, was shot and killed Tay in bed in one of the wards, recovering from three—gunshot wounds inflicted by the same gang earlier in the month. Van Nyoh-Kok, & Chinese detective constable, and a Chinese policeman attached to the French Concession trafic. office were murdered by the intruders as they fled.
'Twenty-seven pistols, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, two bombs, a dagger, and a steel vest were seized with hours of the crime, most of the weapons being found ili a species of Communists' "armoury" situated over a silversmith's shop in Rus Ratard, The six men and four women a rested as a result of the raids ap-[peared in the Second Branca Kiangsu High Court on Tuesday and were then handed over to the Chinese authorities for a two weeks period. They are. being held in Nantao by the Bureau of Public Safety, for questioning,
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