Prof. Hall said that he learsfed later that a Cantonese train despatcher on the Lunghai Railway ither purposely or not saw in him a Cantonese spy, and telegraphed! the information on to Hsuchowfu, I his opinion the train despatcher is probably one of Chiang: Kai-shek': hirelings and cooked up this plot to conceal. his own movements.
His documents in Nanking were again inspected, but the authorities there could do nothing as the! Tuchun himself had already been informed and had previously given] h instructions that alleged spies wou! be dealt with by him in person.' As in his two former places of captivity, Prof. Hall was in Nankit likewise "extended every courtesy. 'They would not accept his parole, however, but Mr. Liu pledged his ity' and he was permitted to stay in the police official's house. A guard was placed around premises and he was permitted to} have his food brought in from the hotel. He was not permitted, however, to communicate with the American Consular authorities at first. Later be was told that if he wished, he could do so, but that the matter would then have to be settled through a diplomatic: exchange of notes, and the military in Nanking believed that it, would be but a short time before Marshal Sun would give his permission for th release. This was obtained on'
Friday, and on Saturday Prof. Hall red in Shanghai, Ithough, as he said, he was detained against his will, he well treated and could complain of ug excepting his detention, Marshal Sun's Northern Scheme The traveller, who was born in China, and now holds the chair of Oriental Literature at the University of Washington, was able to secure considerable information as, to the proposed military movements. At one time he was in the radio room when military messages were being decoded. One of these messages indicated, according to the captive, that an agreement had been arrived at between Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Chuan-fang in which Wuchang was to be evacuated, and the ment as Chief Executive, later becoming President.
The paper's informant states that Marshal Chang had intended to await a settlement of the civil strife ltd election by Parliament before taking office, but the present critical situation impelled him to summon a conference at Mukden recently, and it was decided that he should go to Tientsin in about 10 jdeys, and if the leaders of other factions, such as Marshals Wa Pei-and Sun Chuan-fang raised objection, that he should come to Peking and become Chief Executive,
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