MURDER PLOT
BANDITS CONFESS
LYTTON PARTY WAS IN DANGER ;United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Received this "day at 10.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Jane 28. Four Chinese, natives of Hupeh, were charged in the Chinese court to-day with being members of a gang of assassins. They astonishingly confessed that they arrived in Shanghai two year s ago with the purpose of murdering mem here °i the Lytton Commission, and also of Dr Socng. / The attempt on Soor.g occurred i" 1931, when the finance minister alighted from a train. Thugs opened fire with revolvers, killing one of goong’s (secretaries, S o °ng himself being injured. When the Lytton party arrived at Shanghai and entered the principal hote,l they were trailed by killers, according to the confessions, who, not seeing a chance of shooting owing to the effectiveness of P olice precautions, stole away.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1933, Page 5
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141MURDER PLOT Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1933, Page 5
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