Reason for Summary Execution of Gen, Yang Cho Accoréing to "Russia," Gen.-Yang Cho, who was one of the most pro minent military connected with the G.ER,, and who it will be recalled, was arrested and executed for his pro-Bolshevist leanings, had been storing rifles and ammunition, which were to be used by the Reds in a concerted movement, in conjunction with Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, when Feng Vu-hsiang was ready to move.
The journal adds that a Red coup @etat was to have been me stigated on January 15, but this appears. to have come to nothing with the arrest of the prime mover.
The military police searched Yang Cho's house and found more than 1000 Soviet rifles, an adequate sup+ ply of ammunition " large number istoln nnd 200 hand. grenades were confiscated. While the raid, the police discovered eorrespondence which had passed betoveen Chiang Kai-shek, Borodin and the traitor, together with lists of persons of suspicious rebut The Girl in the Case Mukden, Jan, 10, According to advices from Har [the Chinese claim to have discovered level canal vid Kashing also Kanpa with its high level short-cut, became thriving ports of entry for coast wise traffic. Kashing, formerly called Grain City, smbled enormous for shipment} to Northern proofs of q plot being hatched there designed to overthrow the adminis tration of Marshal Chang Tso-lin and establish a regime which would be tinged with "Red." Yang Cho, said to be the chief of ths Chinese "Resw" in Harbin, was deeply ime Imperial granaries, This section. fu 1ed_battle-grounds for the rs of Wu and Yueh, if interest ing relies may be trusted.
The Kin Tartars were checked at Kashing by a strategic move of the then famous General Han Hsihchung. A mound of empty wine bottles marks the feasting ground fof his grateful emperor. The Taipings fortified Kashing as one of the principal keys to Chakinng.. The Imperialists were held up here by a siege and a final battle that] cost them heavily in men as weill jas a brave general (whose memorial] temple still stands), before they could go on to attack Hangchow. In 1895 the Manchus were alarmed rumour of Japanese invasion, at Chapu and strike through jing at the heart of the silk dis-Chekiang and Kiangsu. Armstrong guns of long range were mounted at the forts for protection. The same guns were again polished {for the Italian fleet, supposed to be Jccming to take the Chekiang slice out of the China melon.
When Marshal Lu was betrayed jin 1924, he accomplished a masterly retreat for two of his armies, using. both rail and waterways to Shanghai. Marshal Chi of Nanking, made a snatch, down Canal from Soochow at Chekiang. Province by capturing Kashing, but iwas out-manguvred by the then General, now Marshal Sun Chuanfang and the redoubtable General Bei Bao-san, both having headquarters here before the, successful Backdoor dash to' Shanghai, Again, Marshal Sun knew what, he was about when w= forced the! ly he had been denounced and in consequence was closely watched. A military uprising, to be headed, it is alleged, by General Lasoviteh, Vice-President lof the \Chingse Eastern Railway and formerly in command of one of the Siberian armies, was planned, the first step being the invitation of non-participating Chinese officials to function in q certain theatre where they were to be put to death, Many Rrsian residents are under ting' out hovsostorhouso searches, ispicion and the Chinese are carry-
The Chinese claim to have proof Jof $400,000 havin: passed from Soviet hands to Yang Cho Gen, Ho Haigeneral of the Corps of the Ankuochun (National Peace Restoration Army), arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday night and received an enthusiastic weleoma from his Shanghai staff. "He was Jzecompanied by ten bodyguards. Gen, Ho, it will be recalled, with small body of men, drove the Into Gen, Chang Usun from his almost impregnable position in Nanking 110 or 12 years ago and raised the banner of insurrection for the Anti-Yuan Shih-kai Armies, He was ater defeated so he came to Shang-Ihai for refuge. Since than he has been a member of Parliament and Fhas thrown in his Tot with the Fengtien-Shantung party. Gen, Ho is only 30 years of age but he is Jeonsidered to be one of the bosh wweiters in China, x0 his appoint ment as Marshal Chang Chung-chang's chief propaganda agent, jsiould prove to be very usefal. 0
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