`` On November 13 , Shih Liang-ts ` ai , its owner and editor-in-chief , was mysteriously assassinated on the Shanghai-Hangchow Highway '' ; responsibility for his murder has been laid at the feet of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics , Chiang Kai-shek 's much-feared secret police . On November 13 , Shih Liang-ts ` ai , its owner and editor-in-chief , was mysteriously assassinated on the Shanghai-Hangchow Highway '' ; responsibility for his murder has been laid at the feet of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics , Chiang Kai-shek 's much-feared secret police .