Gaols Filled with Anti-Revolutionary Captives Wepnespar, June 8, That much transpires in Hankow which never finds a way into the press was evident from statements made by an informant who has been in Hankow since the beginning of the present Wuhan government last October. Gaols are filed with antirevolutionary captives, he declared, and there are also cases kirown to himself when men have been' charged for private reasons with being anti-revolutionaries, thrown into prison, executed and their pro-Perties forthwith confiscated. The large number of executions which have been going on as a part of the struggle for survival of the present government at Hankow has been carefully suppressed, Similarly an active counter-revolutionary movement is seen to be [progressing in Changsha, according to this foreigner. Soldiers and merchants, the former being mainly' small farmers and merchants who' have joined up as soldiers to protect their own properties, formed a combination about one month ago. More recently a three days' round up of Inbourites, composed of the rit-raft and undesirables, by the soldier-merchant combination resulted in 1,000 having been shot, and 800] disarmed. Among those shot cording to an authoritative source was Dr. Tung Wei Chien formerly, head of the Changsha Foreign. Office and Mr. Tung Teng, head of the Tndustrial Commission, both violent Red leaders. This, it should be [Pointed ut again, had no connexion with orders from authorities, but re. presented purely and simply a taking of matters into their own hands by the anti-Communist group,
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