Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-23
ASSASS|NS KILL
DR.. SOONG'S AIDE
Chinese Finance Chief Es-
capes in FusiIIade as Bomb
Injuries Soldier.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, July 23.-Two bombs
and fusillade of bullets directed at
T. v. Soong, finance minister and vice
chairman of the Nationalist govern
ment, missed their mark here today, but
fatally injured SoongSs secretary, Tang
Yu-Loh.
Six other Chinese were injured, some
of them apparently by SoongS BODY
guard in answering the fire OF the I'M
identified assaSSinS.
Tang died at hospital shortly after
ward He was 80 years old, graduate
of Yale University, and was recently
married.
Soldier May Die.
The attack was launched just after
Soong and his party arrived by train
from Marking. The bombs failed to
explode when thrown. but one of them
later was discharged when picked up by
a soldier. He was possibly fatally
wounded. A Cantonese student was ar
rested in connection with the incident.
Seated at a desk on which was one
of the bombs Soong told the story OF the
attempted assassination.
Il was coming out of the station and
was about Is feet from the exit" he
said, when firing broke out simultane-
ously on both sides of me.
Realizing 1 was the target, / threw
away my white sun helmet, which was
conspicuous in the gloomy station, ran
into the crowd and doCged behind a
pillar.
Soon the station was filled with
smoke from the revolverS of the attack
ers, and there was confused firing from
all sides, to which my guards replied.
1T was fully five minutes before the
station was cleared. At least four
would-be aSSaSSins were seen by my
guards to be firing, but there may have
been more. When the smoke cleared
my secretary, who had been walking
by my side, was found shot in the
stomach, hip and arm. Bullets had en-
tered his body from both sides. His hat
and document case were riddled. and it
was miracle that I was unscathed. as
] lowered above him."
Soong said he was pleased to find his
chauffeur sitting impaSSively at the
wheel of his automobile although sew
eral shots had been fired at him and
two of them were lodged in the car
Soong. pillar of the much harassed
Nationalist government, was entering
the automobile when the group at
tackled.
The shots threw large crowd into
an uproar. The density of the throng
prevented police from firing at the as
sassins. Officers fired several volleys
into the air in vain attempt to halt
them. They escaped in the confusion.
Another passenger on the train was
Mamoru ShlrzmltSu, charge d'affaireS
of the Japanese legation at Marking,
whose presence at the station caused
reports that he had been one of the
intended victims. He was in no way
involved.
Life Threatened Before.
Soongs encourage declined to specu-
late upon the probable identity of the
assassins. Official circles believed the
attempt on his life was instigated by
sympathizers of the insurgent Canton
government.
The finance minister's life was threat
ened once before as the result of polit-
1cal enmity. Since then he always has
carried a pistol.
Only 81 years old, Soong is a gradu-
ate OF Harvard University and one of
the leading financiers Of China. He
Is member of family said to be one
of the wealthiest in the Far Eastern re-
public. He is brother of Nine. Sun
Yat-Sen, widow of the founder of the
republic, and a brother-in-law of Chi
ang Kai-Shek, head of the Nationalist
government.
After obtaining his degree at Har-
ward Soong took graduate work at Co.
1umbia University and subsequently was
connected with several New York bank
ing houses. Upon his return to China
he was active in the organization of the
Nationalist government.
DIR. Tucker Surrendered.
An authoritative dispatch from Peip-
Ing today said Chinese authorities at
Tsinanfu had surrendered DR.. Francis
F. Tucker, American missionary. held
for fatally shooting a Chinese employe
of a mission hospital to the American
consul at Tsinanfu on instructions from
the Nationalist government
The American consul, acting on in
etructions from Washington, yesterday
requested Chinese officials to deliver
DR.. Tucker into his custody. The mis-
sionary was arrested recently in Techow.
In the hands of American authorities,
DR.. Tucker will be tried under United
States laws rather than under Chinese
statutes. The extraterritorial privileges
granted by China to the United States
and other countries permit those ma
lions to maintain jurisdiction over their
nationals in Chinese territory.
Several months ago the Nationalist
government proclaimed the end of eX-
Intentionally and sought to negotiate
agreements whereby all foreigners in
China would be subject to Chinese law.
The powers were unwilling to abandon
extraterritorial privileges, however and
the abrogation never became effective
in fact.
DR.. Tucker said he shot the Chinese
thinking he was a burglar. Chinese au-
thorities were reported to have de-
manded Dr. fuckers execution, an
apology from the American Minister
and payment of an indemnity.