NE of the most sensational attempts at assassination ever per~ petrated in Nanking occurred on Friday morning when Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President Executive Yuan and coneurrently Minister for Foreign Affai was shot and seriously wounded by three Chinese, the ringleader of whom is a youth of about 20, China's leading' military and poli ical leaders witnessed the outrage.
Struck by three bullets, one of which pierced his left lung, Mr. Wang, with blood streaming from his mouth, was picked up by Gen. Chiang Kai j-shek and hurried to the Central Hospital, where an operation was immediately performed.
The attack occurred shortly after ten o'clock in the morning, when Mr, Wang and other delegates attending the sixth plenary session the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang were posing before a battery of cameramen.
The ringleader, who turned out to be Sun Feng-min, a reporter attached to the Chen Kwang News Agency, was shot down and seriously wounded by bodyguards, while his two confederates, who.escaped into the Central Kuomintang headquarters, were later overpowered, one of them by Gen, Chang Hsueh-!
Gen: Chiang Kai-shek, who was in the auditorium of the headquarters at the time of the shooting, escaped possible injury or death, as, had he been with the gran he would doubtless have been standing next to or near Mr, Wang.
Besides Mr. Wang and the assailant Ithe only other person injured was 3 servant of the party headquarters, who was hit by a stray bullet in the leg, but his condition Is not. serious.
The attack occurred shortly after the delegates had listened to a brief speech by the chairman declaring the conference open. Following the ceremony, the delegates assembled Outside the headquarters for a group photograph, The members arranged themselves lin five rows, with Mr, Wang, Gen. "Yen Hsi-shan, Gen, Chang Hsueh-liang and Mr. Chang Chi among those standing in the front row.
The assailant and his accomplices were then among the spectators near the camera opposite the delega British Government's
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