Programme Underw hanghai, Oct. 8 Ground breaking ceremonies mark= ing. the launching of a building programme in the newly created Fesidential area In the Civie centre Weill be held on October 21. under the auspices of the Shanghai Real Estate Ca, which has undertaken, hat "ares, the Shanghat terday.
'Water, gas and power mains have already been laid in the district to he connected to consumers' systems as soon as the houses are completed, according to the newspaper.
'The ground breaking ceremony. will also mark the launching. of construction work on a five-story ofice building which will house the Real Estate Company. The structure, which will cost ¥.500,000, will erected at the northern' extremity: of Matsui Boulevard, About ten ears, bearing the officials, were escorted by a.number of police cars and motor-eyeles_ manned by foreign and Japanese members of the SMP. some of whom were armed with Thompson sub-machine-guns.
The trip was made at a high speed fas the motor-eyeies cleared the roads and when the cars arrived at Vu Yuen Road in the vicinity of the Fire Brigade building at the corner of Tifeng Road, it was found that some 300° "Special Municipality" policemen headed by Japanese 'oMmcers, had taken up positions on Vu Yuen Road as far down as Edinburgh Road.
2 pin. and shortly after the cars The luncheon was over st about had driven away again, the "Special Municipality" policemen marched Assassins as Guests Of Wang Ching-wei Shanghai, Oct. 5.
They came with hatchets and apparently meant business. But now they are the "guests of Mr, Wang Ching-wei and efforts are being made to get them to see the error of their ways and embrace the new political gospel of Sino-Japanese ce-operation.
The Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi" 1s responsible for the story about the bad men from Chungking who arrived in Shanghai reently complete with hatchets, and bent, not upon burying same, but on assassinating Mr. Wang. The newspaper relates that Mr. Wang's bodyguards cleverly captured the would-be murderers and put them up in "secluded house near the French Concession," there to work upon them with word and with tract to make them "reconsider their mistaken political ideology so that they may be greeted as followers of Mr. Wang Chi wei afler their repentance.
The feat of bagging these desperate men is attributed to Mr. Ting Mo-tsun, who is described as a Soviet-trainea expert in "special service work." Mr. Ting studied at the Communist University Moscow, it is explained. He is assisted in his special duties by. Mr, Li Shih-sun, a member of the Central Executive Com mittee.
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