The Archive · 1936

Pardon for Leader in Peiping Raid

Hopei Council Quashes Order for Arrest Peiping, June 9.

Memories of the abortive raid against Peiping by a group of Chi-hose rebel troops, in the early morning of June 28 last year, were revived to-day when the Hopel and Charhar Political Council announced that it intended to pardon Pal Chen-wu, a leader in the revolt, Pai, who headed a group of plain-clothes men who attempted to cause a disturbance within the city, in unison with the attack from outside, has been hiding Tientsin since the coup miscarried.

The Council, it is understood, intends to quash the order for Pal's arrest, on the ground that he has been "showing suMicient repentance for his past misdeeds,"—Domel,

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