Shanghai, Jan. 8.
With' reference to the Reuter \ge from Foochow regarding trest or kidnapping of certain members of the Fukien Pros vineial Government, inquiries from Nanking elicit the information that the officials there have no know= ledge of the affair. They say, hows ever, that some of the officials in Foochow have been suspected of being Communists and that it la possible that Admiral Yang Shue chuang and his loyal associates may have arrested some of these suse pects and that this may have led tothe report that the heads of the Provincial Government had them= selves been arrested.
In certain Chinese circles Shanghai it' is suggested that it is more likely that some sort of coup, @état has taken place in Foochow. rather than an attack on' the officials by bandits and it is stated Yhat though certain districts have, been terrorized by. Communist bands, mone of these were believed be near the Provincial eapital—.
Reuter, A Coup a'Etat Nanking, Jan. '9.
With regard to the Fokien situ tion where Admiral Yang Shu-chuan, 'Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese," Navy. and concurrently' Civil, Governor of Fukien, and five other. leading members of the Executive
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