General Teng, who is over 50 years old, immediately started. to defend himself and grappled vith the first gu assassin. Before the mat: could shoot, the retired officer pushed him down the stairway with such: force that he landed on top of the second assassin. This unexpected. incident apparently made the men take fright and they ran out of the house without having fired a single shot. They boarded the car again and drove off along Avenue clu Roi Albert.
The car continued along Seymout Road to Bubbling Well Road, where its driver turned it eastward. Near the intersection of Medhurst Road it was involved in a minor collision with an Ewo Brewery truck, and the two Chinese abandoned it. They left their weapons—Mauser and automatic pistol—in the car. Both guns were found to be fully loaded, each with a bullet in the breech.
The chauffeur who had been expelled in Kiangwan Road: was found on Friday evening and was questioned as to the events of the afternoon. "The Police circulated the descriptions of the two Chinese and Japanese, but up to a late hour last night it was understood that no-one had been arrested.
Yesterday evening the Settlement. Police and the Russian Regiment, S.V.C continued their searches in the Louza district. The "red marias" of the Reserve Unit toured the area, and: policemen and members of the S, V.C. in steel helmets threw cordons about the blocks and conducted intensive searches. them from. their positions im.
into action in an ai
hdles inside the Great Wall.
Japanese troops have sise launched a general campaign in the tri formed' by Peiping, Paotingfu Tee a military authorities The Japanese mi al estimate that the number of guerillas at present in the provinces of Hopi, Shantung and Shansi total 250,000.
to be in Shansi province, again:
Tu addition, 28. divisions are sad whom Japanese reinforcements are now advancing for the third time since last October.
Op the constructive side may included the official opening on 1 of a Japanese-built commercial port near the Summer Palace repair of the Yellow River near Tsinanfu, enabling the tion of the railway service Peiping and' Tsinantu.—Reuter.
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