The Archive · 1936

EX-MINISTER'S WIFE KIDNAPPED

Japanese Said Involved with Chinese Peiping, Aug. 8. Another man believed to be me volved in the recent kidnapping of Mrs. Chu Shao-yang, the wife former Minister to Finland, has been arrested by the local police, His name is Li Yukai, and he is Geseribed as aged 37 years, a native of Mukden and a former officer in the Northeastern Army under Gen, Chang. Hsueh-lia Li Was arrested yesterday morning as a result of confessions made by Chang Tien-hsiang and Chao Hsi-chin, two men who were arrested sharily after the rescue of Mrs. Chu from the hands of her captors on Tuesday evening in Changpinghsien. Chang and Chao confessed at the Bureau of Public Safety that the ringleader of the kidnapping was Vu-kai and that they had been hired by him with two Japanese, Kato and Otomo, to do his bidding. Kato and Otomo also have been arrested and are undergoing examination by the local Japanese consular police. The Japanese authorities have declared that these two men will be severely punished if they are found guilty.

According {0 & Japanese news ly, the object of the kidnapping gang Was to abduct Mr, Chu Shao-yang and hold him for @ ransom of $100,000, but, when they called at his house, they were disappointed to find Mr. Chu was il and unable to receive them, hence they changed their minds and carried away Mrs, Chu instead—Reuter,

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