Wang Ching-wei Escapes Refugee Ca-operatives Murder Attempt Solve Huge Problem Hongkong, Mar. 21.
'Thece unidentified Chinese gunmen early this morning staged an abortive attempt on the life of Mr. Wang Ching-wel, former Deputy'. Chief Executive' of the Kuomintang, a Hanoi dispatch revealed.
Mr. Tseng Chung-ming, former vice-minister of Railways in the Kuomintang regime at Nanking and a close "follower of Mr. Wang, Mrs. Tseng, and a third member of the ousted Kuomintang leader's party were seriously wounded by the as aallants, who escaped, the report said The attack occurred at 3 o'clock this morning, when three Chinese, armed with pistols, raided Mr. Wan residence near Hanoi, according to the dispatch—Domel, Teeng's Death Hanoi, Mar. 22, Admitied to the French Military Hoepital "here" suffering from three abdominal bullet wounds, Mr. Tseng Chung-ming, former vice-Minister of Railways in the Kuomintang. administration and a close follower Me. Wang Ching-wel, the dismissed deputy chief executive of the Chinese Nationalist Party, died at 4 o'clock: yesterday afternoon, it was revealed Shanghai, star. 23 Recent letters from Hunan, teeming refugee depot of the nation, bring news. that the ranks of the starving and destitute are slowly beginning to thin out as idle hands turn once again to production under the stimulus of government loans Mhrough the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives.
'When Dr. H, H. Kung. with K.P. Liu, former Whangpoo Conservancy Board engineer, and Rewi Alley, at tone time with the Shanghai Mupicipal Council, mapped out the Chinese Industeiat' Ca-operatives in Hankow last "August, no one had any idea of the overwhelming size of the rofugee problem that would have to be faced. But as the war has settled down, rough counting reveals. that there' are anywhere from 30,000,000 {0 60,000,000 people who have thrown themselves on the "free" area still under Chungking's control. 'That these hordes. are seriously eating Into the productive power of the People has not been denied by even the' most pro-Chinese observers. Under the sheer weight of these waves of hungry, disease-ridden fugitives the scatiored strength of China has often seemed fair to be smothered, 'Mr. Tseng was wounded by three Chinese gunmen who broke into Mr, 'Wang's residence at 2 o'clock yester= @ay morning. Also wounded In this attempt, apparently directed at the former' Kuomintang feader, where Mrs. Tseng and a. third member Mz. Wang's party. Mr. Wang escaped unhurt
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