Chu Chock-man, one of the most powerful of the following of the date Dr. Sun Yat-sen when the founder of the Kuomintang ws alive and a former district mag' (rate and Red commander, is now a captive in the hands of bandits near Canton, according to reports current in the Southern Capital, Who bandits are only asking for a M: ransom of $200,000, a sum the vernacular press thinks he could easily raise, in view of the fortune ho made after several years in the Kuangtung. Mr. Chu, however, gras to have been arrested by the 'Bolshevists in Canton, in connexion with the recent assassination of iso Chung-koi, in which Mr. Chu is being accused "as an accomplice. sAecording to the Chinese press, Mr. "Chu's reasons for spending " dis' quiry.
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