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Show Sftirote aft CSoalte toy M IIOTEDCIIIIIESLU LEADER KILLED BY ASSASSKiS Nippon Air Raiders Pour Bombs on Canton SHANGHAI, Dec. 30 (UP) Loh Peh-Hong, Chinese Catholic leader and one of the country's richest men, was assassinated today at he waited for his limousine outside his palatial ' home in the French concession. It waa hinted In asms auaurtera that ths assasslnatl la the apea- . lag of a terrorist eampsiga to prevent pre-vent Chinese adherenea to new Japanese regime la Shaaf baL , Loh waa regarded by many Ohle ness as pro-Japanese, and it waa to this belief that his death was at ' trlbutsd. Loh waa general manager af the Chinese Else trio Power company, among many utility and ahippina; Interests. Chn Chung-Ysn, sec re- ' tary of ths company, waa with him this morning aa fee waited far sua Slain Without Warning . Two Chinese orange peddlers approached ap-proached and, without warning, began be-gan firing pistols at him. Three bullets bul-lets took effect and Loh died on the . way to hospital. Ths assassins as caped. Loh was a member of a civilian committee formed to facilltats a return re-turn to "normal" conditions la Shanghai and hs had been mentioned men-tioned as a possible new mayor, pre ' sumsbly acceptable to Japanese. Well known for his philanthropy, Loh had bean decorated not only by the pope, but by ths French and Belgian governments. In 192T ha visited the Untied States as Chines delegate to ths international Catholic Cath-olic conference at Chicago. On ths war fronts, SO Japanese bombing planes poured explosives on Canton In southern China aa Chinees continued destruction of Tsingtao, Shantung province seaport, sea-port, in the face of a Japanese advance ad-vance from ths Interior. Planes Bald Can tea Japanese war planes. In the aaoet severe raid since September a, bombed the outlying districts erf Canton for 49 minutes today, apparently appar-ently seeking to destroy ths arsenal. Damages and casualties were reported re-ported alight. Two series of tsrrifle explosions left Tsingtao In terror today. Leading Chinese citlsens, forms lng ths city's ruin, appealsd to municipal authorities to maintain electric service, but it was believed their appeal would be vain. Ths United Btatss gunboat Sacramento Sacra-mento arrived at Woosung, near Shanghai, with refugees from Tsingtao. Tsing-tao. including 17 Amsricsns. Thera j remained at Tsingtao 159 Amsrl- cans, with 13 more in the country near by and 11 in the Tsinan ares,, which Jspanese havs captured on . , their drive for Tsingtao. 808 Slain at Nanking Japanese army authorities an- - -nounced that their casualtiee ia the capture of Nanking were 800 killed and 4000 wounded. Japanese airplanes resumed their bombing raids, with troop concentrations, concen-trations, airports and strategic rail roads in central and southern China the targets. There was evidence that the Japanese Jap-anese were most angry over the continued guerilla warfare In the northwest by the eighth route army, ths . former Chinese communist army, and associated forces, it was reported thst the Japanese high command had determined to send a new army to the northwest front in aa effort to smash the oppose- . t tion. - . . ' ! It was known that the eighth ' army waa causing ths Japanese eon-siderable eon-siderable trouble, and it , was re- j (Ooottnune on Pnct Two) I I Column Stent I I TERRORISTS HIT AT NIPPON RULE ported here that it had retaken IS counties in Shansi- province. Chine sources reported that a battalion of women had been formed to aid General Chu Teh. commander of the eighth army, and that they wen now fighting Japanese troops in the Wutaihan district of Shansi. Chines asserted also that Chi nese guerrilla fighters had taken the town of KwangTeh, in th lake-district lake-district west of Shanghai, far inside in-side the Japanese lines. Dispatches from Hong Kong reported re-ported that Japanese warships and airplanea were Increasingly active off th mouth of th Canton river. MOSCOW, Dec 30 (UP) Moscow newipapers, in dispatches from Hankow, asserted today that within a few days Germany probably would present to China a six-point Japanes peac offer. Japan's terms were outlined as follows: 1 An economic agreement giving Japan participation in China s national na-tional resources, customs duty, foreign for-eign trad and aviation and other transport and communications. 2 Conclusion of an agreement) with Japan and Manchukuo against I communism. j 3 Stationing of permanent Jap- ; aaeee garrisons i Chins, . 4 Establishment of demilitarized aonea in regions to be specified by Japan. 6 Creation of an independent government In Inner Mongolia. 6 Payment by China of war indemnities. in-demnities. According to the dispatch, Italy waa somewhat annoyed at Germany's Ger-many's independent mediation efforts. ef-forts. LONDON, Dec 30 (UP) Japan, in a note to Great Britain regarding regard-ing an attack on the gunboat Ladybird, Lady-bird, gave assurancea- aimilar to those she offered regarding an attack at-tack on the United States gunboat Panay, publication of the text disclosed dis-closed today. It was understood that the government gov-ernment sought to assure publication publica-tion of the entire note in Japanese Japa-nese newspapers. This was desired particularly because Japan did not publish ths Panay note in full, no- tably the disclosure that men responsible re-sponsible had. been punished. The Ladybird was attacked by Japanese in the Yangtze river above Nanking on December 12, the same day as the airplane attack at-tack which aank the Panay. |