Assassin Wang Yang-chen, 44 year-old customs broker steamship-ticket broker and shroff employed in the Yah Dah Match factory, was killed by a lone gunman at the corner of Rue Lafayette and Rue Massenet shortly after 7.30 p.m. yesterday, the assassin being arrested by C.P.C. 748 who took up the chase, Two unarmed accomplices escaped.
Wang, accompanied by two friends, was waiting for a bus as the trio had planned to spend the evening at the New World Amusement resort, when the gunman advanced suddenly, fired a number of shots from a Mauser automatic pistol and ran away in a northerly direction, dropping his weapon in order in facilitate his escape. The C. P. C. on point-duty took up the chase and was able to arrest him although two of his unarmed accomplices managed to get away.
From investigation thus far conducted by French police detectives, it appears that the gunman had been hired by a rival businessman who, like Wang, was doing illicit transportation business, and at a late hour last night, it appeared that there was no political motive behind'the mur-
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