Mr. Tsai Tiao-tu, the editor of a Chinese newspaper in which alleged anti-Japanese articles had appeared, was assassinated on Februry 5 and his head, minus the body, was found the following day in Route Stanislas Chevalier with a general warning not to engage in anti-Japanese acti-ities. A Chinese witness described in court on Thursday how he was given the unenviable task, ju the New Asia Hotel, of washing: the newspaper-man's head so that it would be fit for exhibition in the French Concession. Zug Bing, in his evidence, shed further light on the murder of Tsai.
Zung Bing said he. visited Konomi's room (No. 626) in the New Asia Hotel on February 8, when the "adviser" informed him of Tsai's death. Zung quoted Konomi as saying that he had- wanted Tsai's head io be thrown into the French Police Headquarters in Route Stanislas Chevalier to embarrass the French Police but that the presence of guards defeated this happy scheme. Konomi revealed that the. editor's head was sent to the French Concession in a motor-car.
A month later Zung Bing became a full-fledged member of an organization known as the "Asia Rehabilitation Society." He continued to see Konomi frequently and acted as &n interpreter for the "adviser" to the "Huang Tao" group. He said that "s Konomis interpreter he heard many discussions about the butchering of Chinese bodies the heads, arms and hands of which were being placed at the time on streets in the International Settlement and French Concession or sent to prominent Chinese who were to be intimidated. He also admitted hearing frequent references to the bombing of Chinese newspapers publishing alleged anti-Japanese articles.
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