The Archive · 1928

Bandit Chief Captured

Last Wednesday, by a cle mander of the Western Rehabilitation District, laid hold of one of the most successful of Kuangtunie Bandit chiefs, Yuen Tai by name. Sples working for the government had discovered conclusive evidence of his perfidy. The evidence plainly showed that he was working for the of Communism, The most Startling revelation was that the "Reds" were bent on recapturing Canton City, some time in. Septem-and would stake their all in fu making this supreme effort to tablish a Soviet Government in the Kuangtung Provine General Chen Tsi-tong made proffers of friendship to earnest of this, invited him to be hhis guest in Canton. The unsuspecting Yuen took passage on a river boat, and when he got to Canton' Wednesday morning he found General Chen at the dock with his motor lear. The two rode together through the city, chatting and joking the while, until, at last, the headquarters the Western Rehabilitation District Commander were reached.

There the motor car drew up to the curb, and host and guest alighted. Yuen Tai's hilarity was thereupon cut short, for a guard of soldiers from then on constituted his enter tainment committee, and the four walls of a cold damp cell have been all that he has had to look at sine

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