Outrages committed in and near Canton are not so apt to go unpunished, for the police department is functioning very well indeed. The band that caught B. F, Wang,' the Hongkong Press correspondent. and Sun Yat-sen University instructors, did not get very far, for soldiers' and police pressed' the culprits so hard that they had to abandon their pricerer and flee for there lives. The ringleaders have been caught and put to death and houses in two villages razed to the ground because these communities had harboured this outlaw gang. And Kaan Wai, who planted the Domb intended to kill Tsin Lickui and Peh Yuk-tong, the two famous Cantonese actors, just after the show was finished one evening recently at the Honan Theatre, has gone to his death.
Following the ursuccessful_atthe two stars Wai had written another letter threatening revorge if he were not. paid his price, It appointed a meet~ ing place to discuss the payment. manded, and the with a passee of police standing hard by. One of the two who went there to speak for Kaan Wei was his own wife. She was nabbed on the spot by the police, though her male companion got away.
Forced to reveal the hiding place spouse's betrayal cost him his life.
police went straightway to the village of Santso, near Honan, and closed in on Kaan's residence. the ensuing scuffle, Kaan Ws shot dead, as was' one of his confederates.' Three other men were taken alive, Tt was a grand haul, for, lot of letters that were to have been despatched demanding large sums of money from well known personages were found, together with Kaan Wai's seal, "One such letter had just reached another troupe of actors playing at the time in a country show-house a village near Honan.
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