The Archive · 1927

Reason for Mme

Wu's ARREST

Confused with Shansi Women Propagandists Shanghai, Oct, 17, Reuter it officially informed that the arrest of Mme, C. C, Wu was due to the fact that when the Shansi hostilities started Marshal Chang Chung-chang was informed that a number of young women had been sent to Tientsin to carry on propaganda, Thereupon he instructed the Tientsin military and police authorities to watch the docks and railway stations for suspicious women arriving or departing. Nevertheless, Mme. Wa might have escaped notice if her servants had not made a fuss of her being the wife of the Nanking Foreign Minister. The case has been report. fed to Marshal Chang Chung-chang [and as soon as the local authorities at Tientsin hear from him Mme, Wu will be released—Reuter.

Shanghai, Oct, 21, The Chinese press has received information from Tientsin that Ins. George Wa has been released. She now is receiving medical attention in a foreign hotel and will return to Shanghai ina few days.

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