The Archive · 1940

Well-known Chinese

Executed

5. T. Chen, executive vice-p int of the American Engine: ing Corporation at 989 BuDbling! Well Road, was executed by a firing squad in Nanking on Wednesday, charged with attempting to assassinate promoters of the peace movement.

Bethesda Gospel Hall (International) 729 Vu Yuen Road, Shanghai. Gospel Services are held' in: German: on Breaking of Bread Meeting on Sunday: Class at 5 m.; on Wednesdays Bible Class for Ladi lies at 4-5.30. English: on Tuesdays Prayer Meeting at 5.30-6.30 p.m. Chinese: on Sundays Breaking of Bread Meeting at 10-11.30 ann; on Sundays Gospel Meeting at ' 3-430 pin.: on Thursdays Prayer Meeting at 220-9 pin. on Fridays Bible Class at 30-8 p.

Foreign ¥.M.C.A—Informal Sunday Evening Service at 6 pin. in the Junior Division Room ' (Mezzanine floor) Speaker, Mr. K. J. Faulkner. All welcome.

Society of Friends (Quaker)—A meeting for worship to which all are welcome will be held at 6 p.m. in room D at the Foreign Y.MC.A, 150 Bubbling Wen Road According to the "Sin Shun Pao" Mr. Chen received large subsidies from Chungking for organizing an assassination gang in Shanghai, He was further alleged to have instigated not only Chinese but also some Russians to work for him.

Before he could do harm to officials of the new regime, however, he was arrested in July in Shanghai by Nanking's political police. He was said to have confessed to the crime.

Mr. Chen was a well-known business man in Shanghai, aged only 39. He was educated in America and had been connected with a number of foreign firms in Shanghai during his many years' residence in this

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