Shanghai, Oct. 12.
CLIPSING the numerous political murders in Shanghai following in the wake of China's undeclared war was the callous assassination yesterday morning in his Scott Road residence in the outside area of Mayor Fu Siao-en of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai, satellite of Wang Ching-wei and former banker, financier and director of a number of Chinese concerns.
Death came to the mayor swiftly from wounds inflicted by a meat knife wielded, it is believed, by a servant of his household, while he was asleep in bed. The assailant slashed at the dormant body of the mayor several times with the knife and the fatal wounds were caused by a gash on his neck and another on his forehead.
The murdered official presided at a banquet in his home on Thursday evening in commemoration of the anniversary of the Double Tenth. The festivities lasted until well after midnight and the mayor did not retire for the night until after 2 a.m, He was assassinated In the early hours of yesterday morning, The servant, Chu Sheng-yuen, 40, who has been'in the mayer employ for the past ten years and who being widely sought by the police of the three areas here, is believed 10 re Tain in wait for his master small room adjoining the sleeping chamber of the official. Biding his time, the assassin waited, it is- alleged, until his master was fast asleep before making a vicious the Settlement was reinforced during the day, Chinese pedestrians being stopped and searched by armed potice parties and the search being extended during the day even to Chinese oecupants of motorcars negotiating the Garden Bridge. A city-wide search began for the missing servant. and his paramour, a woman who lived with' him for some time in the ser-at This recumbent body, slash- vants' quarters of the mayor's re-ing mercilessly at the mayor several sidence. times with a heavy meat knife.
Airs Shanghat It_was reported that the Nanking railway train PU. who is a light sleeper, in another room and was by some noise and rushed ther husband's room to ind him in. the throes of death and bleeding protus ly teem his wounds schedules were suspended and that every possible avenue of escape open to the fugitives has been closed. Their arrest is expected hourly awin to the rigorous measures adopted by the police
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