M it entire blame for the shooting incident outside 1081 Jessfield Road early on Sunday morning when one Settlement police constable and two members of Mr. Wang Ching-wei's organization, stationed inside the building, were killed, was placed on the Shanghai Municipal Police yesterday afternoon by Mr. Ting Mochuen, Minister of Social Affairs of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee which officiates under Mr. Wang's orders, during an interview with a foreign reporter of the *North-China Daily News" at 76 Jessfield Road yesterday afternoon. "This incident took place through some misunderstanding," he explained, "and the blame cannot be held by anyone except the Shanghai Municipal Police."
He added that the whole affair had occurred as the result of a big mistake by the Shanghai Municipal and the responsibility would have to be borne by that body. "They could not shake off the blame, "Mr. Ting went on, "and so they put all the blame on us." This attitude on the part of the Shanghai Municipal Police was regretted by everyone in Mr. Wang's organization.
"Two days before this incident took place," Mr. Ting told the reporter, "a Chinese police constable was killed and a Sikh wounded off Edinburgh and Vu Yuen Roads. This was not done by our side, We did not do this," he stressed emphatically. "It is absolutely necessary to treat the Shanghai Municipal Police in this way. It seems to me that these two policemen were attacked place Mr. Wang in a very difficult by Chungking terrorists in order to
position." Here again he emphatic cally denied rumours that the shoot ing had been done by members of Mr. Wang's organization. These rumours, he said, had aroused bad feeling on the part of the Municipal police.
"Definitely Revenge"
Referring to Sunday's shooting, Mr. Ting explained that this had occurred outside the Tsao Yi Primary School "We have our men stationed there. The place is known to everyone—Special Municipality police and the Shanghai Municipal Police as well" he asserted. "On a basis of misunderstanding and suspicion the Shanghai Municipal Police took action against us. It was definitely revenge."
According to Mr. Ting the Shanghai Municipal Police had the idea that they would be able to arrest the murderer of the Chinese policeman, killed on Vu Yuen and Edinburgh Roads, in the Tsao Yi Primary School. Therefore, between four and five am. they had surrounded ihe place with machine-guns and other heavy arms with the definite object of launching an attack.
The men inside the grounds, he explained, took it for granted that they were being attacked by gunmen—probably Chungking terrorists-and they were forced to resist. They had returned to fire purely from motives of self-defence and as a result two men had been killed and several wounded. "We can produce evidence to prove that we were not prepared for this thing," Mr. Ting added.
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