The Archive · 1939

Pro-Wang Official Slain In French Concession

Shanghai, Nov. 15, The French Concession Police were yesterday investigating the assassina-Yien of one Chao Fan-chin, an ofllcial in the "Special Service Corps of the Chung Kuo Kuomintang Anti-Comintera. and. National Salve tion "Army," a. pro-Wang" Ching-wel organization, and a Fesident of Siccawei, wa lenvs hao, who was about 30 years

ing a' restaurant with a friend at 130 Pam on Nov. 12 when he was te faked by three or four gunmen, He Was shot through the back outside the. si Hsing edging house in Avenue Edward: Vil, neat the inter. Section of Rue des ores, ie died Almost instantly. Tis companion Was of wounded.

It_was believed by the French Police after the shooting that. the victim was a casual passer-by who was shot as a gang of robbers were fleeing the scene of a simultaneous looting at 417 Avenue Edward VII.

No "arrests had been reported in the case yesterday.

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