NOTORIOUS GANG

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 5

NOTORIOUS GANG

ACTING FOR NEW PUPPET LEADER FACTS OF THE SHANGHAI CLASH. JAPAN’S CHOICE OF HELPERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 23, The “New York Times” Shanghai correspondent says that the battle on Saturday between International Settlement police and Chinese employees of the Japanese-sponsored regime is likely to prove fatal to I Mr Wang Ching-wei’s candidacy for the leadership of the proposed new Chinese Central Government. Also it openly establishes the Japanese connection with the lawless elements. The group precipitating the battle has an unsavoury police history, including armed robberies and other acts of violence. It is known as “Wang’s special service corps” and consists of 60 members.- It was this notorious gang that the Japanese gendarmes protected on Saturday. An earlier Shanghai report stated that three Chinese, one of whom was a policeman, were killed, and an undetermined number wounded in a clash on the border of the Settlement between Settlement police units, supportby Italian marines, and armed Chinese motor-cyclists. Foreigners in Shanghai regarded the clash as a development in the Japanese anti-British drive, involving an attempt to control roads bordering on the International Settlement.