Peiping, Apr. 1
IX political leaders of the new North Chinese Government and members of the Peiping Committee of Pacification were killed in the capital of Honan province, Kaifeng, on Eastern Sunday when unknown assailants invaded a meeting of the committee and shot all six members.
The seventh member of the committee escaped death by being absent.
Japanese circles assume that the assassins were Chinese who had managed to slip into the ranks of the Japanese troops in Kaifeng. None of them had been apprehended yesterday evening.
Those killed include the chairman of the committee, General Hu Yun-kun, and a former high office? in the Manchurian army, General Fu Chuang-ying.
The committee of pacification had been formed at the beginning of this year for the purpose of looking after Chinese soldiers who decided to join the ranks of the new North China Government.—Trans-Ocean.
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