The chauffeur who emerged unscathed from the ordeal was only concerned with the welfare of his em ployer and immediately drove him to the Country Hospital where he was pronounced to be dead on arrival.
The assassin lost no time in taking to his heels and was ascertained to have escaped in a hire car bearing municipal licence No. 17972. which whirled away in an easterly direction The late Mr. Metzler Detectives from Bubbling Well police station were on the shortly after being apprised of the crime end condleted investigations News of the assassination was received shock by tke Russian community here and the Russian afternoon papers gave echsiderable prominence to the affair.
The late Mr. Metzler was one of the mest prominent organizers of local Russian charities and served on numerous Russian social and other committees, He widow who left Shanghai recently for a holiday in Japan, where Mr. Me: ler was to have joined her shortly.
The deceased was born in Samaria, Russia, on September 5, 1886 and was educated at the University of Petrograd, He was no mean linguist and spoke English. French, German and Chinese fluently. He left the university in May, 1911, and joined the servi he ian Ministry of Foreign Affair He came to China in 1912 us attache to the Russian legation in Peking. For the next two years he was in charge of the Russian consulates in Sharasoume and Kobdo, Chinese! and Mongolian Altai. He returned to Peking in 1915 and in September, 1917, he was sent to Shanghai by the Imperial Russian Government as Russian vice-consul. In June, 1924, after the recognition of the Soviet Union by the Chinese Government, he left the Russian consular service (Continued on page 2. col. 3
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