Peiping, Apr. 12. GX potiieat loaders. of the new North Chinese Government and members of the Peiping Committee of Pacification were ed 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 enairman Jot the committe, General Hu Yun~ fun and a former high effect in the Manchurian army, General FU year for the purpose of looking after Chinese soldiers who decided to join the ranks of the new North China The committee, of, pacification tai been formed at the beginning of stoops holding out in the viol the east gate AL the. same severe fighting is said to be continu: ing'in west and south Shansi, where, Secording to the spokesman, the Che eae have occupied Fushan.
hinese troops in West Suiyuan, he continued, launched an attack "on Spurs against Japanese positions at Taliong. 10 miles east of Anpeh, Attack on City Tokyo, Apr. 12.
The admission that Chinese troops attacked Kaifeng yesterday is contained in a Japanese dispatch received ere.
"Some 1,500 troops of the Chinese }2oth Division, under General Sun Pung-hsuan, tu conjunction with an-Jother 600 regulars who, disguised as feivilians, had been hiding in neighbouring' villages, the message says, "attacked Kaifeng early yesterday Peace Eiforts Rejected great Britain must not mediate for peeve in the Sino colores the "Soo, Tang. Pac. agnized organ of the Chinese Army. Chinas it says, will not accept edia~ {ions hich, fo any case. would only feouit'in difteulties for Creat Britain inthe Far East umeers of median, the paper e°Shanghat between Sir Archbold Son, arose following the recti
Clank Kerr, British Ambassador Chins, and Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan. Sir Archibald Kerr. forthcoming visit 0. Chung-King. it says, has also tended to con-fig this rumour.
"Great Britain may hope that by acting as a mediator she. may draw Japan away: from the Berlin-Rome 'AR thus in the event of 2 Buro-can. war, easing the pressure on the Far East" the paper, de-claret. "fy continuing the Sino= Japanese war, however, China will be able to keep Japan's miliary strength tied up, making it impossible for her launch attacks on Hongkong. and
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