Very few people were about when the shooting occurred and the police had great difficulty in gaining information which might lead to the arrest of the murderers. From the disjointed accounts they received from Chinese who were in the building at the time, it appears that nobody saw the actual shooting, although when the shots were heard there was a general alarm during which the assassins escaped.
On entering the room where Dai Yoong and the boy had been sitting, other inmates of the Y.M.C.A. found the man lying in a pool of blood in an unconscious condition. The boy suffering more from shock was unable to give a coherent story. interrupted so that the border fort fications may be built more speedily. leads to the supposition in political quarters here that German action in Central Europe is perhaps imminent.
The visit to Berlin of General Alberto Pariani, Chief of the Italian General Staff and Under-Secretary of State for War, gives rise to more —of an Italo-German military accord, And even as officials give assurances that the significance of the British sovereigns' visit lies merely in the symbolical reaffirmation of the two peoples' friendship, observers remark that Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary accompanying King George VI on the visit, wil! confer with French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet.
I is anticipated that the two statesmen will outline their two countries' common attitude as regards the outstanding international problems of today.
In general. it is noted particularly that the visit to France of Br royalty will make more solid the Anglo-French entente, which has become stronger day by day since the consolidation of the Rome-Berlin axis following Reichsfuehrer Hitler's to the Eternal City in early May t year.—Havas,
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