Hankow, Sept, 18, Four persons attempted suicide in Hankow yesterday and three succeed fed in their endeavour. Of, these the Imost remarkable case was that of a man connected with the Bureau of Public Health in Hahkow city, who iwas named by a communist already under arrest as one of his comrades, Acting on this information detectives the Bureau and waited till this Mr. Kao arrived, He appealed to his superiors to guarantee hin, but faced with the new regulations forbidding public servants to guar Jantee persons accused of comnmunism, they could-not help him, With his arms tied as usual, he was taken. Jover to Wuchang' on the ferry. but when it neared the shore he suddenly sprang over the side and his weight carried the rope out of the Rrasp of his escort: A starch w made by the boat, but proved futile. The escort is said to have been put under arrest,
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