Rebel leaders are believed to have returned to Shanghai recently in large numbers, and, according to detective reporte, many of them are said to be living somewhere within the Settlement. However, several alleged rebels, named Hsia Hsiung-fei and others, were captured the other day at Pootung. They came here to plot a rising, and had an office established in Pootung. Their movements became known to an officer of the garrison stationed there, and a raid of the robe! quarters was made by order of the superior authorities with the result that the rebels were arrested, and at the trial they confessed that they had been given commissions in the rebel army by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Details of the trial were not disclosed for publication. Tele-
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