Substantiating Evidence Claimed in Hands of Japanese; Police Said Studying Objective Shanghai, July, 25. (CONTRADICTING newspaper reports to the effect that the shooting affray on Avenue Edward VII, which cost the lives of four persons and as a result of which some 20 persons were injured, the spokesman at yesterday's Japanese: press conference said that, according to the information in the hands of the Japanese authorities, the attack on the newspaper building was made by pro-Chungking terrorists in an attempt to create friction between the S.M.P.—a body with British preponderance—and the Japanese authorities, so as to slow up the successful nego fons at present going on in Tokyo, Asked by one of the correspond-fents, what the objective of pro-Chungking terrorists would be in attacking fervent. supporters of th: Chungking Government, the spokesman said that the matic: was at present being investigated by the Shanghai Municipal Police but that it, is suggested that the papers atincked asa result of their having toned down recently in their antl= Japanese attitude. A correspondent then pointed out that one of the two Papers attacked by tht terrorists had Feceived numerous threatening letters from a pro-Wang Ching-wel organ~ fzation in which destruction of the premises was forecast if it did not stop its anti-Wang Ching-wei attitude and that the coup was staged but a few days after the very same paper published the denunciation of Mr. Wang Ching-wei by the Chungking authorities.
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