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TERRETT SHOOTING CASE
In the
Counsel's opening address case against Wong Shlu-on, 24 years old, described as a Chinese military officer, began at 2.30 p.m. to-day.
Wong is charged with shooting with intent to murder in connection with an attack, on December 2, on Detec ilve Inspector H. R. Terrett.
The case came before Mr. R. A. Edwards, and Mr. Willams, Crown Counsel and Det. Inspr, L. R. Whant, appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Hugh Jones held a watching brief for the defendant.
appeared on charges of (a)
ME with intent to murder (b)
causo
shooting with intent to grievous bodily harm (3) being In unlicensed possession of a Mauser pistol.
2 MORE DAYS! TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW up. Terrett Invited secused to go with
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 30.
AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN equipment, personnel and advice are now helping Chiang Kai-shek develop a new air force-his third since the war-to challenge Japan's undisputed mastery of the air over China.
the air.
Official reference books ere-alr force, even with Russian assist- dited China with 600 military ance, can sweep the Japanese from aircraft at the outbreak of hoy- But they are convinced that an tilitios.
efflelent, hard fighting Chinese corps Actually, China's first line plane can become definito millinry strength was about a third of this nuisance to the enemy and thus listed figure.
contribute to the success of China's
A
Three months after its first disas-tactics which are designed to wear trous appearance over Shanghai this down the enemy slowly. starting foren had been pretty well shot to
pieces, and took no part in the defense of the Nanking area. air force had been so weakened by Ten months Inter, Chiang'a second
combat losses and by temporary withdrawal the Russian support
of that it was unable to contribute to- ward the defense of Hankow,
Chilang Now that Generalissimo has reorganized and settled his government and war machine in the for
western interior he has ngain] turned to the Americans who inve daya. stood by him from pre-war and to the Russians to build a third air force.
ITALIANS 'WITHDRAWN
NANKING OFFICIAL KILLED BY ASSASSIN
It
SHANGHAI, Jan. 29. MR. Ma Yu-hang, Secretary- General of the Nanking Pro- visional Government, was killed Italian influence in Chinese mill-in the Sun Sun Hotel department tary aviation, which before the war threatened to overshadow the Amer-store at 7.15 to-night, when a Counsel, opening for the prosecu- can, has been effaced completely by gunman entered his room and tion, said that on the evening of 18 months of war. The tallanair-wounded the politician with a December 2 Det. Inspr. Terrelt was craft plant at Nanchang had not single shot. on reserve duty when he received turned out its first plane whonl Instructions to go to the Gloucester | hostilities commenced.
Ma was immediately taken to Hotel
Mussolini's recall of his China air hospital, where he died Inter in the He went there and saw accused,
mission not only rendered this evening. who told him he was waliing for a
a extensive plant useless for the
The victim, who was from Fuklen friend. When the friend did not turn manufacture of new airplanes, but province, was over 40 years of age.
also forced the suspension of training is reporters that he recently arrived" him to the Central Police Station activity at Nanchang and other basea from Nanking to confer with Jupian- Ai the station accused spent somewhere Italian experts were in charge ese offelals. time telephoning but after one and
Russion airmen and machines The pollee threw a cordon around a half hours his friend had still not appeared on the war turned up.
asked the Inspector to go out critical juncture for China. By the with him to find his friend. Terrett fall of 1937, Chinn's starting feet (90 per cent American) had been put went with nccused to Wongnelcheong Road in Happy Valley, but the friend out of action. was not
there. Accused suggested going to ing.
Here. 100, the search Was fruitless, so the pair went to the China Emporium ball-room, where accused spoke to a girl
After telephoning,
accused told Terrets his friend had returned to his office. The two men returned to the Wing On Bank Balldig.
After
scene
aut
the district where the crime was committed, but the resultant search wes fruitless-United Press.
"Central News" adds that an un- Identifled Chinese youth entered Ma
to the Wing On Bank build the American a severe bombing. Yu-hang's room in the Sun Sun Hotel
Terret became suspicious there and told accused that he would wall no longer than five minutes.
At the end of the five minutes he asked accused to accompany downstairs again,
him
aircraft be
owned and operated and shot and killed him.
Ma, who was futally wounded, was factory at Hangehow had to dismantled and shipped by rushed to the Lester Hospital for treatment, but did not recover from devious routes to Hankow.
Needed for service as tactical and the wounds. He died at about nine
advier
in Nanking o'clock. operations American Instructors at the Hang- chow air school was forced to ball Shanghai from Nanking on January their systematic training of Chinese) 23, alrmen.
AMERICANS ACTIVE
For six months after the loss of Nanking Russian-manned, Russian- made planes did most of China's per- "They had reached the second floor in fighting. Reassembled in Han when Terrett suddenly heard a shout kow, the American factory resumed Put up your hands,' he was told.production of war planes for the Chi- "Ife thought defendant was jokingnese, but few of these craft saw ne and told him not to be a fool. tive use, as the Russians preferred
"Then ho saw a Mauser pistol In their own ships.
Russian activity in the form of and nirmen of Chinese training fighting the Japanese was abruptly halted toward the middle of 1937, however, due to political and policy differences with the Chinese
defendant's hand,
"I'm not footing.
Put up your hands, defendant reiterated.
Ma was a Fukienese, and arrived in
JAPANESE
ENVOYS MEET IN EUROPE Tightening Up The Anti-Comintern Pact "Terrett took a step forward, but as he did so he heard a report and
PARIS, Jan. 29. felt
elt a sharp pain in his neck,
continued to move towards ac-mand cused and then heard another re-sians, however, Chiang Kai-shek's which are stated to have dealt Before the withdrawal of the Rus-CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN Japanese envoys in Europe, American experts moved Yun-
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"Be felt
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established their air school. In
Then he collapsed. He tried to cent weeks additional instructors for here to-night. shout, but could make no sound.
crakers.
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R and
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The participants were Ambassadory "He managed to get his police for Generalissimo Chiang have ar. Shigemitsu of London, Shiratori of whistle out of his rocket, and bicwrived from the United States. R feebly,"
With the approach of the Japanese Rome and Kurusu of Brussels, and "Meanwhile, the watchman down-army to Hankow, the American air-Ministers Yano of Burgos, Amau of stairs heard three shots, but thought craft factory was again dismantled. General Oshima,
representative Bernie,
Ambassador to think somcont had let off soine Most of the personnel and cquipment
from was prevented started on the long journey to Yun-Berlin, who opened the gate of the nan province. A group of techni-attending by illness. building to investigate, and as he clans moved to a point in southern According to a usually reliable was looking at the floors above, heHunan, where they went to work a French source, the talks, which were saw a man, dressed in European sembling a squadron of fast fighters clothes, dashi past into the street. Just arrived from America.
"Terrelt managed to crawl down
to the gate, which he found WAN Tocked. He blow his whistle Again, and managed to attract some atten- flon.
RUSSIANS DROP SCRUPLES Wih the now American fighters, the Hankow fabricated attack bom- bera and a miscellaneous number of
distinct from the normal occasional conferences by Japanese ambassadors in Europe, were suggested by the ambassadors to Rome and Berlin, who met recently on the Italian Riviera.
There appears to have been a "Two Indian police constables still serviceable American and Bri- divergence of views on the question were attracted by the crowd which tish planes as a nucleus, Chiang Kai-of the anti-Comintern Pact. Whereas had gathered and saw the inspector shek hopes to develop his third General Oshima's representative, and
lying there."
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wartime air force, manned by cutlets Mr. Shiratori wanted to lighten up now undergoing a rigorous relations with Rome and Berlin, if under American Instructors in
und
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take
air. China's Generalissime has been nursing" other European Powers, assured that he can again depend notably Britain.
upon the Russians, whose political scruples have apparently been over- come.
It is considered here that the Anal decision will depend upon the
Neither Chiang Kai-shek nor his evolution of the European situation. foreign advisers believe that the new
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Bombay, Jan. 29. Subhas Chandra Bose, the Lattist
A masa demonstration called by the India League in Trafalgar Square leader, was unexpectedly re-elected In support of Indian Independence, President of Congress to-day, was attended to-day by a large sec- This is regarded as a defeat for tion of the Indian community in Gandhi and the Congress High Com- London.
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