Fifty-One Executed: Arrest of Others Ordered: Responsibility, Accepted for Communist Outrages Nanking, Mar, 17.
The Government Council issued two important mandates yesterday, one ordering the arrear of the principal culprits responsible for the Nanking incident last year and the other decreasing ~protection to foreign nationals in China, A textual translation of the mandates sas follows, "Daring the capture of Nanking in the third month of Inst year, when the Nationalist "Army was busily engaged in exterminating, remnants of the enemy ju the midst of disorder and confusion, a part of the Army together with the local riff-raff, at the instigation of Communists, daringly plundered the friendly foreign Consulates in Nanking and the residences of foreign nationals in and outside the city, to the extent even of killing and injuring Consular officials and other foreign nationals, This, indeed, is very regrettable, Presently when. high military commanders were i formed of the incidents, separa Besides putting to death on the spot the responsible soldiers, Hew Chan-sheng, Chang Fa-kui, Wang Chenfa, Ma Ho-sen, Huang Chi chang and 14° others, and_ the responsible local desperadoes, Yang. Shen-sen, Chao Chi-yen, Chang Fain, Chen Ming-sao and 28 other the Government on the 12th of the fifth month of last year issued an order for the arrest of Lin Tsu-han, Director of the Political Department of the Army, who was the principal propagator of the Incident, but whose arrest "has no* yet been effected.
"He ts hereby ordered, that all the military and civil authorities sbull instruct their subordinates to. prehend and arrest this and o!ler responsible culprita for prosecution and punishment according to law order to suppress darder at the Protection of Foreigners property in China is a duty of the Government and although the Nationalist Government. has repeated= ined orders, decreeing protection foreign residents in China, it is Possible that in spite of restoration order and peace, there may still be some disturbing elements, lurking Ins society to forment and incite ralitary and cot uthoree of the "te is hereby ordered that all
provinces shall instruct. thelr_aube ordinates to institute a vigilant and Secret detection; it being necessary fe tively to suppress all misdirect= movements against jtbth Chinese and foreigners. marder that all Deople in the country may live ence and prosperity."—Kuo Bin.
Final Attitude Considered by Diplomatic Body Peking, Mar, 16.
Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister to China, who is now staying in Shanghai, has been negot'at-ing with the Nationalist Govern ment for the settlement of the Nanking incident, on the basis of identic notes sent to the Nation alist_authorities last year by the five Powers affected by the outrage, Miles Lampson having ascertained the sincerity of General Chiang Kai-shek for the acttlement of the Nanking question, and find~ ing that there was good hope for the settlement of the incident, the representatives of the five Powers concerned, viz Japs tain, America, Fi held' a conference Japanese Minis adopted by the five Powers, is stated that the most dificult point in the negotiations is the ques Yon of reparations.
At any rate, it {8 a fact that the so-called Nanking incident, which created world-wide sensation and 'A translation of the second man-ute reads as follo "Protection of foreign dives and hich is remained unsetied for ear; is nearing
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