HAIL of lead, believed to have been discharged from.45 calibre pistols wielded by two Chinese terrorists in foreign attire, yesterday morning brought to a violent and untimely end the career of Baron R. d'Auxion de Ruffe, M.A., L.L.D., prominent 66-year-old French lawyer, journalist and a leading member of the local French community.
The assassination, for which the French police could ascribe no clear motive, was attributed in some quarters to the upsurge of terrorism due to conflicting political interests in the Far East. The victim, a resident here for the past 30 years and scion of a patrician French family from the south-west of France, it was established was for many years a legal adviser to the late Mayor Fu Siao-en, satellite of Mr. Wang Ching-wei who also met his death at the hands of assassins, R.AF. Attacks on
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