Shanghai, July 16.
The bomb outrage at Mukden on June 4 which resulted in the death of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, commonly known as the Dictator, and General Wu Chun-sheng, his most trusted lieutenant, who was Governor of Heilungkiang and acting Governor of Manchuria, seems likely to become one of the crimes of history.
Despite the fact that a Sino-Japanese Committee of Inquiry was formed to investigate and to discover the plotters immediately after the outrage,.no authentic statement has been issued up to the present, it being understood that the Chinese members of the Joint Committee refused to sign the report drawn up by the Japanese members.
As it is historically important that all the light possible should be thrown on the affair,"we trust the following report on an independent investigation made on the spot will be found of interest.
The Hushing Up Process When even a very small railway accident happens, it is in all civilized countries customary for the Authorities to make a most thoroug.a investigation of the accident in order to find where to lay the responsibility for it. And when a crime is committed, the authorities will spare no effort in trying to find the culprit. But when in China a whole train, carrying as passengers a number of prominent people, including the head of the government, is wilfully blown up, the whole thing attributed to some mysterious "reds" or "plain clothes agents"—and the case is: hushed up. Siniilar methods might have worked successfully during the Middle Ages, but the present times and the present Public require the truth about such accidents, even if the truth be rather embarrassing for certain parties. In the present. case the truth has been so shamefully distorted and hidden behind official smoke-screens and deliberate journalistic lies, that even people not very well versed in Oriental polities must have suspect ed that they were being deceived.
The author of the following lines has had the opportunity of closely following and studying the stances both before and after the accident, and believes himself therefore capable of laying the facts before the public. The facts he believes to be indisputable—he leaves to the public to draw the conclusions,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.