Hanoi, Mar. 22.
Admitted to the French Military Hospital here suffering from three abdominal bullet wounds, Mr. Tseng Chung-ming, former vice-Minister of Railways in the Kuomintang administration and a close follower of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the dismissed deputy chief executive of the Chinese Nationalist Party. died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, it was revealed this morning.
Mr. Tseng was wounded by three Chinese gunmen who broke into Mr. Wang's residence at 2 o'clock yester day morning. Also wounded in this attempt, apparently directed at the former Kuomintang leader, where Mrs. Tseng and a third member of Mr. Wang's party, Mr. Wang escaped unhurt.
Assailants Arrested The three assailants, and one alleged accomplice, were seized by the French police yesterday. They have refused to talk, but it is generally admitted in local administrative quarters that they are connected with the Kuomin-tong elements under Gen. Chiang Kei-shek opposed to Mr. Wang's advocacy of Sino-Japanese peace.
Mr. Tseng, who was a native of Fukien, was 38 years old. After o) tailing degrees: from the University of Paris and the University of Lyons. Mr. Tseng taught at the National University of Kwangtung. He served under Mr. Wang Ching-wei as senior secretary of the Kuomintang Government at Nanking and also as chief secretary of the Political Council.
He wag also known for literary works on Chinese poetry and translations of Chinese literature into French.—Domei.
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