Peking, Aug. 7.
Members of the Imperial fami are extremely indignant over the desecration of the Eastern Tombs and are demanding severe purus ment for the responsible persons, Tie police have made Arrest by Peking Police Empress Dowager Looking as Aug. 5. In connection with the desecration of the Manchu Tombs the Peking police have arrested Tang Sung-ting, brother of General Tang Shoo-ching, whose forces were responsible for the excavations.
Tang Sung-ting, who is alleged to have sold large quantities of the loot in Tientsin and Peking on behalf of his brother, was found by. the police in a bath-house. He is fan officer of the Chihli-Shantung troops now reorganized under the Nationalists, and his bodyguards fired on the police, but they finally arrested him and lodged him in a military gaol.
Shansi forces have been sent to keep a proper guard on the violate if Still Alive Teingtao, Aug.
Charged with being in possession of over 300 pieces of jewelry, the two Chinese who upon their arrival here from Tientsin on the 4th me stant by the Chohei Maru, were ar. rested and taken into custody and who, since then had been tried by the local Chinese police, have been identified as having taken part in the recent excavation of tombs of the Manchu Royal Family.
According to their confession, they were taken aback when they found the Empress Dowager lying in state in her coffin looking as if she were alive, even her hair being in perfect order.—Toho,
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