The arrest of one man who sought to bribe Marshal Li's guardsman had indeed far-reaching con-Sequences. As he sat there drinking. ten with him whose duty it was to protect the Generalissimo, and to) guard him at all times, little did this, youthful radical dream that the of those at the table next to theirs wore wide open to catch all that he said. Would the guardsman accept now the offer that had been made before? $40 a month would come lot more than any of the bodys could expect to draw as servants of the government. Little work to be done, only to wait and watch, and to take' orders when the aniers came, Finally, of course, one or more of those who might be thus employed would have to pull the trigger when the proper iniament arrived. A small thing: good riddance, and a sure reward for the service done to "the cause."
This young high school student} picked out the wrong time and place. for holding this tete-a-tete, and when hho had finished saying all that he had to say, those from the adjacent. table came over and had a few words: with him. At the police office, he broke down and gave the names and addresses of his colleagues, and their arrest speedily followed, and so much valuable information was forced out of the men thus caught, that many more arrests were effected.
Right on the heols of this first incident came the news that Generals Paak Sun-hei and Li Chung-yan were at daggers drawn with General fis Ching Chim. Ching Chim had always een looked upon in Canton as of a pink tint, if not actually scarlet, is men were being disarmed, and at once Li Chi-sen and his councillors took measures. lest the Communists, angered by that affair, should seek to make up for their loss in Wupei by making gains in Kuangtung. A mild form of martial law was put force in Canton, by which is meant that people were not provent= ed from going about at night; but and that the detectives planned raiding parties, and squads of policemen began searching people on the street Quite a' few of those who rounded up were on the rolls of Canton schools—more boys and girls, They were caught in various ways, At the post office specially-picked officers went through the mails, opening most of the letters coming into Canton from other parts, They intercepted a letter written by Come munists to one young student. One older radical was caught in like mane ner. From Hongkong he had written, to his wite telling of the contemplate ed Red uprising, and the officers simply waited until he returned to this city, and then confronted him with the evidence,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.