The Archive · 1939

Shanghai, Dee. 9

Members of the' Settlement" and French police forces "shot it out" with a Would-be assassin yesterday morning at the crowded intersection fof Avenue Foch and Weihaiwei Road. The criminal" was brought down by Sub-Inipector Ht, Brether-ton, of Bubbling: Well Police Station: two Chinese pevestrivns weve killed and two wounded in the crass Ming. Upwards of forty shots were fred altogether, The target of Ue asas in, Kuh Sz-tsung, a "badlands" feint and former member of the Bu-

Feau of Public Safety under the Kuomintang, escaped without a scratch Kuh had just left his residence, House 4-A, La Avenue Foch, in the Prench Concession, at 9.50 o'clock was. Wall when he saw ser pistol making for him. Beliyt an Official of the new regime. he knew Int once what was up and started Fun along Avenue Foch, He was fred fat twice but he managed ts reach safety inside a Chinese bank ¥ port istence west of Lane 913.

The wot-be assassin darted across Avenue Foch, intending to escape into the Settlement. "At the bus stop on the noth side of Avenue och, hove-ever, he ran into a Settlement Police Imotoreyele patrol consisting of Sul Inspector

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