Arrested Suspect Admits Participation Col Wen Ying-piao, 3l-year old former official of the Nantao Bureau of Public Safety, and lately believed to have been connected with Mr.
Wang Ching-wei's government, was critically wounded in his home at 47 Avenue Foch at about 5 a.m. yesterday. One of the two gunmen believed to have participated in the shooting, was arrested red-handed and made a confession to the French Concession police.
The two men forced their way into the house and fired at their intended Victim who was sitting in a ground floor room. One bullet struck him in the chest, penetrated hís body, and came out from the back.
A private ambulance was summoned to the scene and the wounded officer was rushed to the Paulun Hospital, where his condition was declared to be critical.
Col. Wen is the brother of General Wen Ying-hsin, who was Commissioner of the Bureau of Public Safety until the outbreak of the 1937 hostilities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.