Canton, Jan. 4.
Provincial Kuomintang delegates duly elected by the branch chapters fof Canton and the countryside are in session, Met to select seven to sit on the Central Executive Committee and' five others to serve as Supervisors for 1991, the delegates have kad to' waste' the past two [days listening to the recommenda tions of candidates' sponsors, Can-assing is almost over, and balloting, [should commence to-morrow afternoon." But for most candidates voting will be a mere matter of routine, for promises have been exacted from most of those in attendance, and it is not a secret that mest of the high officers of government who have been ruling the party will keep right on ruling it 'A Hokshan delegate will leave the convention hall for a prison cell. When the tumult and the shouting has died away, he will be arraigned ona charge of murder. Exemp from the service of a warrant while he-is actually fulfilling his elected office, the privilege will not hold for the convention has adjourned sine dic, Yang I-loan, a comely maiden, wko has for several. years been a devotee of Sovietism, still lives. She will not have to' sacrifice her earthly existence on the altar of communism, neither will she have to serve a prison sentence. All because sake has agreed to betray her confederates; to work to undo the vwrong.that she has done.
Caught in the round-up at Shiuchow, Yang Tlaan turned on ber fellow-workers on account of the treachery of one oF more of them. Had not another Red talked too much, she would not" have deen disturbed, but te chose to give her away, and now she is prepared to ive away every lasting one of the Kuangtung Bolshevists.
Tt was in a house with a history that Yang Tlaan was caught. One of the princes of the reigning roy family of what is now French Indo: China got the place as a present} from the Chinese Government at the time that the royal household were divested of their rights by th conquering foreign troops. This prince fled to Kuangtung, where he was well received, and until his. death this Shiuchow house was his residence. Others of the family' still own it, but ad rented it to Yang Tlaan's family, This maiden is a native of Shiuchow. Her early education was obtained "in a Shiuchow mi school. She went to a middle school in Changsha, across the line in Honan province, but went back to her home town' when Borodit came into power. Ail during thos if days she carried on, and her wide circle of mission friends took liber for what she pretended to be, a young lady who was wrapped up in the cause of Christianity when right along she was turning out Soviet circulars in secretin her theme, doing missionary work but not for the Lend.
"I am not afraid to die," Yang. F-loan told the military officers who interrogated her. "I know 7 must die now that T have been caught; bout T know that would be my fate, It is only what I expected." But it was not the bravery that the young, lady displayed in the face of death {hat wan the heart of the military judge. "His merey was extended when he became convinced that she was after all not bent on selling her country to the Communists, but was only using communism as cause to secure a betterment of government in China if possible. Everything that communism stands for, she freely admitted is wrong, and strongly to be condemned. Not withstanding, she believes that what she holds to be sore spots in Ther country's governmental system can only be wiped out by the adoption of stringent measures, and she looked at espousal of the Red cause as the using of the most stringent of measures.
"No Reds in sight. Everywhere look in the counties about Shiuchow he coast is clear." is the eubdstancé of a radiogram that three country magistrates have sent to the Canton government. Event along the Wutian
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