Mr. Pan Chen-yung, an official of the Ministry of Communications who is attached to the offices of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, was assassinated by a Chinese named Chow Yung-wen in the lobby of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., 123 Rue Montigny, at about five o'clock yesterday afternoon. The victim, stabbed once through the heart and twice through the chest died before reaching the He proceeded to denounce the methods of certain countries, methods that consisted of "invading the territory of other States, always presenting new claims that may bring about war, condemning people to misery in imposing on them ever-increasing armaments which render useless any offer of international collaboration that might be made."
M. Daladier stressed France's love for peace—"France menaces no one and desires ce-operation with all.
"Our policy is wholly devoted to the grouping of men and nations in the defence of peace "Solidarity between France and Great Britain today is greater than it ever was in the past. It remains the basis of French policy and we will nat allow it to be weakened either by intrigues or odious propaganda and lies.
"At the moment that the British people, by clear and voluntary effort, break centuries-old tradition and freely impose on themselves the discipline of compulsory military service, the French people again fraternally salute them."
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