Armed Kidnapping—At about 8.30 Dam. on May 13 four men, two of Whom were armed with' pistols, obtained entrance to a semi-foreign house at 22 Wuting Road and while one of them guarded the occupant of @ downstairs room, the other three went upstairs and took away 4 Chinese student aged twenty-two years. Before leaving the kidnap. ers handed to the guarded man a slip of paper stating that by order lof the Communist party they were taking away the student and that could be released on payment of $150,000. This case was taken over by the Headquarter's Special detective staff for enquiry on May 16 fand they made one arrest the same day. The accused is on remand.
news has been received of the kidnapped student, Political.—Raids on two Chinest printing presses at 344 Chengtu /Road and 215 Fearon Road reveal-Jed the printing places of three anti-[Government mosquito newspapers ited "Shanghai Wu Pao", the and the "Revolutionary Daily News" for the publication of which members of the Left Wing were responsible. Of fewenty-five persons, printers, compositors and proof readers, arrested during these raids twenty-iwo were ordered to be handed over to. the Chinese Authorities while three were acquitted on account of their youth. "Five newspaper vendors arrested for selling these newspapers are still on remand at. the fend of the month. In addi ti the foregoing arrests the Mun Police apprehended on warrants four persons on charges of being reactionaries and conspiring cause insurrection in the Wuhan Zxea. These prisoners were subsequently ordered to be handed over to the Chinese Authorities together with another person who was arrested for being in possession of licaft circular of an anti-Government nature. On May 26 the Police seized during a search of brei 130 Annam Road a considerable Javantity of books published by the members of the Left Party which were subsequently ordered to be handed over to the Chinese Authorities. "A Chinese arrested on May 27 for posting an anti-Government handbill on the walls of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, 4 Avenue Edward VI was still' on womand at the end, of the month.
case of one Chang Ping-sung land his wife who were arrested in March at 1132 Kungping Rood for being engaged in anti-Government activity was coneleded on May 21 when Chang was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and his wife One of the most daring and brutal outrages in the annals of Shanghai tock place on the Whang-iver on May 30 when a launch carrying nine men, of whom seven' were armed with pistols, drow alongside'the Conservancy Board launch "Li Fei" which had just cast off from the South Manchurian Whart.
The armed men without warning wes removed about midnight to the opened fire on the "Li Fei" killing collection of stories which make the of China and its people a real to the reader as to the talented author, W, A, Cornaby, sinologue and artist.
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