One of the most daring attempted assassinations took place in the French Concession yesterday when five or six Chinese gunmen waylaid Lieutenant Pierre Blanchet, Deputy Commissioner in charge of uniformed branch of the French Municipal Police, and inflicted two wounds. on the French officer. One of the bullets struck him in the side of the body, while another penetrated his shoulder.
The crime, which took place at 8 a.m., caused quite a sensation, coming the close on the heels of other assassinations of French police officials. Less than'a month ago, Russian auxiliary detective, E, Ivanoff, met death under very mysterious circumstances when a bomb exploded in a house in Route Frelupt and killed him instantaneous-
Exactly a week later, another Russian member of the French Police met a tragic end. This time it was Sub-Inspector P. M. Yankovsky of the Political Section of the French Police, who yas shot by an unidentified Chinese gunman after the latter had rung the door bell and made sure that the man, who opened the door, was the person he intended to kill,' Both cases have so far remained unsolved and no clues whatever were left by the criminals. It appears from the information given out by the French Police after day's shooting, that the attempted assassination of Lieutenant Blanchet will also go on the files of the Crime Branch as another of those unsolved mysteries.
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