One of the bullets, after having struck a wall, ricocheted and slightly injured a Chinese woman, named Wang Li-zo, in the right fog. She was reared in hospital and was permitted to go to her home, however.
Kao, investigations revealed, was a constable in the "Tao Tao" river police, operating outside the city limits of Shanghai and had been ip he employ of that organization for quite some time. Nothing, according to investigating police officials, revealed that the murder was of olitieal nature, inasmuch as that the only document found on Kao's body was a private letter and a subsequent earch of his home revealed no evidence to the effect that he had ever been threatened. His wife, closely questioned at the police station, also denied that her husband had ever been threatened and it is for this reason that the French police are inclined to believe that the man was murdered for personal vengeance rather than on a political count.
The attack was made so suddenly that constables on duty near by were unable to take up the chase.
Subsequent examination by ballistic experts of the cartridge cases found at the scene, revealed however that this weapon too, had been used in one of the many shooting affrays that kept Shanghai under terror on July 7, 1938, first anniversary of the Loukouchiac Incident, when bombs were thrown and many persons killed and injured in the worst day of terrorism to which Shanghai had been exposed in history.
The last political murder, in the French Concession, was committed on September 30, when Mr. Tong Shaoyi, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of China in 1912, was brutally axed to death in his home at 18 Route Ferguson, by a band of men who had entered the Tong residence under the pretext of bringing wedding presents for the former statesman's daughter. They left the house calmly, once their crime perpetrated, and it was only later discovered that Mr. Tong had been the victim of assassins. Although not an active member of the "Reformed Government," it was hinted at the time that the veteran politician had been approached to take up an important position with the new regime.
It is widely believed that Britain hopes for a Bourbon restoration presumably to offset Fascist domination of Spain through the family's Eritish relationship. Such a restoration would scarcely arouse American enthusiasm in itself and it is doubted that monarchy will prove a more effective ched of totalitarianism in Spain than in Italy.—Reuter.
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