He described how fabric had been replaced by metal as new alloys were Giscovered, and how research had enabled new designs of wing to be brought into being, principally owing to girder construction, Although the hi-plane was not altogether on the scrap heap, as had the advantage of a lower speed achieving the same lifting. capacity, the monoplane was faster in general fight. much easier to maintain and had no wires to be tensioned, Airships although perhaps the most economical means of transport by alr were not popular because of the disastrous history of this particular type of, machine, The auto-gyro also was not popular because of prejudice and its compara tive ineffectiveness in war, although such machines are attractive aerodynamically, May 22, Personal grudge wad baileyed tohave inspired the "assassination Subsinapector Ying Teehehing of the Weaicrn Shanghai Area Special Police Fores at 1186 am, yesterday. when En"onidentified gunman fred 2 valley shoe Just as he victim was aMlehi-{ng from a car outside Lane 11, Wenchow ood "A pedestrian who, ED: Rrr'wounded "by a array bullet and ied To be near the scene of crime,
Niccumbed. to His "injuries at the Paulin Hospital soon ater is. mission there. returning home from duly at the appears that, the deceased yas
Time of the assassination, Acriving at the tone, the victim. goe_out of the car and intended to proceed 40. fame "at No. when the gunman, Apparently. waiting. for him, pressed he trigger. fung. several shots and wounding him: in the head and body Sone. Ying "slumped 10 the round, while only a few steps away nother man fell, with a bullet An his chest. The crime was witnessed bY Some. passers-by, but. the assassin. SiN brandishing his plstof, managed escape before the" arrival of the poles Both victims were taken to Paulun osptal in on SH. emergency' am-Dutanee ana both died at the hospi, soon atler being admitted there No Traces Found Detectives from Sinza police station were on the scene of the crime soon after the assassination and a search Was carried out. but no traces of the gunman were found. It was believed. however, that polities had nothing to do with the assassination and the fact that the man had joined the Western Area police wag not thought to be a suleient motive for the atime, On the other hand, it, was ssiid that the tate Sub-Insp. "Ying might have been killed By some criminals whom he had dealt with in Tine of duty.
The deceased. before hig service with the Western Area police. was th the Shanghai Municipal Police for several years. bath in the C.LD. fond uniform branches, He resigned from the Settlement police in 1999 ud later Joined the other police force.
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