Charged with murder, Chen Yiring, who has received military training in Chungking, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court. He was charged with shooting Hu Shi-ti, a pro-Wang Chung-wei student of the Great China University in Bubbling Well Roaa on May 1. He told the court that he nad killed Hu for revenge.
Chen told the judge that he formerly lived in Changchow but when the Sino-Japanese hostilities opened he went to Chungking where he received military training. Returning to Changchow, he met one, Vu Kang who worked for the Chungking g ernment. Vu obtained a job for him and so they both came to Shanghai. On April 12, he said, they met Chen Ching-piao, a student, in Avenue Road and had a conference in the street.
While they were talking, the student whom he later shot dead rushed up and killed Chen. His friend Vu told him to obtain revenge and so he was given a pistol to shoot Hu. He carried out the order accordingly, he said. It was revealed in court that it was a fight between two groups of Chinese students in Shanghai belonging to two different schools of political thought.
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