As an aftermath of last Friday's round-up of Communists fifteen Chinese were executed here on Sunday, while it is expected that numerous executions will take place from now onward as the military authorities seem to be determined to stamp out Communism in this centre. The labour unions, once 80 Powerful, are now in the dust and those of the union officials who are not already in the hands of the Military have fled or are in hiding.
'Amongst those executed on Sunday were four male students and five girls who were charged with instigating the recent cotton-mill riots in Wuchang and' of th maining six, two, Tsen Dah-pel and Li Han-chin, were former members of the Provincial Government, while the Intter was also President of the Sun Yat-sen University. With the exception of the two last named and one other, all those executed were young, the girls being all in the neighbourhood of twenty while two of the males were aged seventeen and eighteen respectively.
Russian Woman Released After Amongst those arrested were a number of non-Russians, includes a Dane and some Frenchmen, most surprising thing of all, a French police officer in full uniform. Those have since been released. Tt believed that the French police officer intervened on witnessing the ill-treatment of some of the Russiny women by the Chinese troops and promptly had the same treatment meted out to himself, having to suiter the indignity -of marching through the streets in the custody of Chinese soldiers and with his hands bound behind him, While the objects of the raid are: applauded and approved by every member of the foreign community, considerable criticism is being levelled at the various municipal authorities for allowing the troops to carry on the raid unconducted by the police. "The Chinese soldier, armed to the teeth and in overwhelming numbers, is not a pleasant' person at the best of times and it is generally held that the work could have been conducted just as efficiently and in not quite such a Varbarous fashion under the super vision of the police.
Simultaneously with the round-up of foreign suspects in the French Concession and in the Special Districts, in the native city and in Wuchang, and it is reported that hundreds of streets, Few of the cadet officers were killed, but they made off with their loot, leaving the city to the cast, and making for Hoifung and Lukfung, two counties where a jaraly Soviet government has been force for several months.
This morning, martial law restrictions to some extent are being withdrawn, and shops one by one fare venturing to open their doors. Foreigners also are coming in this morning by steamer from Hong-Kong, where a great number went. on the first day of the trouble. Hundreds of special officers were sworn in and walk their beats with revolvers in hand, for the police have not been properly reorganized as yet. - Almost every policeman in Canton had his revolver or rifle taken from him when the "Reds" took the city, and several scores—specially the officers—were killed in the defence of the Bureau of stations, Public Safety, or of the district
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