At about 4 o'clock, after officers of the Settlement police had come to ascertain that the slayings did not occur on Settlement territory, a number of Japanese military police officers in plain-clothes arrived on the scene and carefully inspected the corpses of the two slain Korean:
The identity of the assassinated men, could not be ascertained up to a late hour last night, but it was believed that they were three of the hundreds of drug-peddlers who go to Japanese occupied territories of Greater Shanghai, tekirg small consignments of opium, heroin and other narcotics, to their various customers.
It is also possible that the men were employees of one of the many sambling dens in that district although this theory was not believed to have any foundation.
This is by far the most daring attack of all those to have been perpetrated in the Western area in the last few weeks as the men attacked their victims in broad light in a densely populated part of the üistrict and evidently sure of themselves, as they calmly took their Chinese victim to his place of execution without even bothering Rome, Feb. 13.
The Italian goodwill mission to the Western Hemisphere ended in a fiasco ioday when the Government announced the two goodwill cruisers now visiting Central America would be recalled to Italy without completing their tour around the world.
"The ships will no longer proceed westward," a brief Government communique said. "Having finished their mission, the ships will return to Italy across the Atlantic.
The original schedule called for the two cruisers, the Eugenio di Savoia and the Duco d'Aosta to pass through the Panama Canal on Friday en route to San Francisco and the Far East.
The new orders issued today mea that the Italian goodwill mission would not touch any United States port.
Reason for the recall of the Italian mission was believed to be the hostile reception received in Central American ports by the Italian warships. While anti-Fascist demonstrations met the Itdlian seamen at almost every port, prospects were that an even less cordial greeting awaited them in San Francisco where liberal organizations were preparing to protest against the visit.
The Italian warships received one cordial reception during the tour when thousands turned out in an unprecedented demonstration at Buenos Aires a month ago. The tour northward was increasingly unfriendly, however, and was climaxed by the rotten egg and pamphlet incidents in Panama and Costa Rica and prospects of hostile demonstrations in Mexico znd the United States—United Press.
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