Tientsin, Nov. 14.
'The assassination of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, former Governor of the five Southeastern provinces, Kiangsu, Chekiang, Aniwel, Fukien and Kiang" si,' which ogeurred here yesterday afternoon at\3.15 o'clock, was a case of revenge for the execution by Marshal Sun's order years ago of the assailant's father.
This fact was revealed in a statement which the assassin, Miss Sze Chien-yao, 30-year-old daughter of the late Major-General Sze Chung pin, formerly military officer of the Shantung provincial government, distributed at the spot immediately after she let loose a fusillade of bullets on Marshal Sun's body.
Miss Sze, it was explained in the statement, had harboured for 11 years the will io avenge the father, who was shot Pangfu on the 'Tientsin-Pukow Railway' In 1024, The assafiant, it was learned, had been told that it was the practice of Marshal Sun to go to the Chu Shih Lin, a Buddhist temple at the South-asi Corner of the Native City, every afternoon, Kneeling Before Altar Yesterday afternoon she went to the tempi Marshal Sun there, immediately drove bback to her residence in a motor car teton her pistol.
Returning to the temple shortly after 3 o'clock, Miss Sze found Marshal Sun kneeling before the altar prayer. Pretending to be a worship er, the assailant knelt behind Mar-hal Sun. "Catching him unawares, she fred three shots at him in quick Two of the bullets hit Marshal Sun.
the head and the third one entered his body from the back. The ex-war-Jard Instantly rumbled on the floor and died half an hour later.
In perfect calmness, according to eyewitnesses, the girl assailant. told the people in the temple to keep calm, meanwhile throwing a statement and a name card on the oer, Following the shooting tel phoned the police headquarters, informing them of the Incident. As 000 police arrived at the econo, voluntarily followed them to the Poilee Headquarters—Central News.
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