Shanghai Feb, 21, far the most important assassination on patriotic grounds effected in Shanghai since the 1937 hostilities was carried out on the evening of Feb. 19 when Mr. Chen Loh, Foreign Minister of the "Reformed Government" and a former' Chinese Minister to France, was riddled with bullets in his residence, No, 25, Lane 668 Vu Yuen Road, in territory under Japanese control.
The "China New Year assassination, which was apparently executed according to carefully 1a id plans, as performed at about 7 o'clock by a large gang of alleged political agents who acted with speed and precision and escaped easily despite the presence of a number of Mr, Chen's bodyguards.
Two of the latter disappeared with the assassins, Some Atteen men were in the group that went to Mr. Chen's. residence, seized and disarmed the watchman at the front gate and then went to the ear door. About half of these men entered the house and walked to the dining-room on the ground floor where Mr. Chen was sitting with members of his family and one oF two guests. They pointed pistols at the "Reformed Government" official and fired a number of times. One of the bullets went through his head and another penetrated his right leg. He slumped back on the sofa where he was seated and died almost instantly.
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