At the beginning of April, while discussing the terroristic activities of the "Huang Tao" Society wi Konomi, Zung testified that Konomi pointed with pride to the fact that he had purchased 27 automatic pistols from the Shanghai Municipal Police through the Japanese military authorities in. March. Zung exclaimed that this was foolish, but Konomi only chuckled and explained that as the pistols were being used, the identifying numbers were being filed off. Besides, he (Konomi) had written a letter to the Shanghai Municipal Police notifying them that all the pistols had been stolen. Zung stated that the following day he saw three Chinese in the process of Bling numbers off pistols, in the New Asia Hotel.
Two of the 27 pistols have since teen identified by arms experts as having figured in two of the assassinations ascribed to the "Husng Tao"
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