The three Chinese gunmen who tried to assassinate Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips, Secretary and Commissioner General of the Shanghai Municipal Council, while he was on his way from his home at 633 Avenue Haig to his office downtown, were yesterday said to be in the custody of the Japanese Gendarmerie at their western headquarters, 94 Jessfield Road, where they had been placed by the "Special Municipality" police on Saturday.
The "North-China Daily News" understands that the Police have been confronted with a wall of silence and denial regarding the arrest and detention of the would-be murderers of the Settlement's chief official. While it is generally mentioned that the three men who posed as rickshaw coolies and then fired at least nine shots at Mr.
Phillips's car are in Japanese cus-lady within the well-guarded precincts of 94 Jessfield Road, in the British Defence Sector, the actual crime remains apparently unsolved. This in spite of the fact that the Japanese and the "Special Municipality" officials have expressed their official regrets over the murderous attack.
Mr. Phillips, whose sangfroid at the attempt on his life - astonished all those who investigated the affair, was yesterday being necessarily guarded by specially-assigned members of the Police,
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