Political Motive Said After Bomb Sets Her Afire Behind Great China Namsos, Norway, May 1.
University Shooting German planes in six separate attacks bombed Namsos throughout yes-Students screamed and dashed Jor terday, spreading death and destruc-cover at the Great China University, tion throughout this city and blowing 1051 Bubbling Well Road, at 1 p.m. up a British warship, reports the yesterday when three shots rang out United Press correspondent here. instantaneously killing Hu Shih-ti, One German bomb hit a British one of their 19-year old comrades. destroyer squarely aft, turning it into His assailant, who is also believed to a blazing inferno when munitions be a student, was arrested by two aboard the warship exploded. The C.P.C.s who came on the scene, before British crew managed to beach the he was even able to throw away his destroyer and saved here. weapon, a small-calibre revolver in The explosions from the destroyer which two unspent rounds of am-shook the entire area around Namsos. munition were found. The motive The condition of the ship made it for the murder is said to be revenge impossible to determine immediately and while police officials in charge of how many men had lost their lives the case declined to make any state-in the explosions and fires, ment yesterday, it was reliably under-One British anti-aircraft ba&ery stood that the assailant admitted hit a German plane during one raid. having shot Hu because he blamed The German plane disappeared over him for the killing, some ten days the horizon trailing smoke from its be was found shoot in Wong-ago, of another student, who, it will tail, The plane was believed to have been forced down. should kashaw Gardens off Avenue Road.
Students were just returning to their class-rooms after the noon recess when the three shots, all of which wounded. German planes after drop-hit deceased, rang out and Hu colping their bombs machine-gunned lapsed qn the staircase leading to the private homes of civilians before re-first floor. His assailant, dressed in a turning to their bases. brown long-gown under which he The German raids on Namsos wore foreign-style trousers, had began at 7 am. and continued at walked up from Bubbling Well Roa: frequent intervals until 5 p.m. Large and without a word of warning opened fire.
German squadrons, heavily loaded with bombs, participated in each Constables Arrest Assailant raid.—United Press.
To London Post Tokyo, May 1.
Mr, Takeo Yumoto, Japanese Financial Commissioner to China, will be appointed to London in succession to Mr. Shoji Arakawa, who will assume the post of Assistant-Director of the Board of Manchurian Affairs, Domei learned today.
Their appointments will be formally announced on Friday following their approval at a regular Cabinet meeting.—Domei, Celebrated Dancer Dies Milan, May 1.
The celebrated operatic dancer, Rosina Galli, died at the age of 46.—Reuter.
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