Two Chinese said to have been in the employ of the Wang Ching-wei organization in the western "bad lands" and the Japanese military, respectively, were riddled with bullets last night at a dinner given by one of them in a restaurant at 514 Foochow Road, corner of Hoopeh Road, in the heart of the Louza amusement district. The assassins, who used high-powered Mauser pistols and smaller automatics, escaped. Although a number of the guests and members of the restaurant staff were question-2d, it could not be ascertained at an early hour this morning whether the murders were committed by persons present at the dinner or by outsiders.
A fusillade of shots almost instantly killed the two ren at. whom the shooting was directed, and ro-one else apparently was wounded.
The host at the party was named Yang Ching-hai and he was giving ihe dinner in celebration of his having recently been appointed to a post in the Wang Ching-wei organization in the western area.—He had invited about forty Chinese to the feast, and his guests were seated at severa! fables when the shooting started. The time was 7.15 and the party was getting well under way. error.
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