Sensational Plot Against Niece of Belgian Envoy Front A Contesronbext Tientsin, Dee. 15.
A sensation was caused here to-aay when the British Municipal sued a brief statement announcing that four forelgners, including J.P, M, Ferrer, well-known member' of the local French community, had been arrested for am alleged attempt to kidnap Miss Denise Thion, pretty ninetcen-year-old daughter of Baroness Guillaume and niece of the Belgian Ambassador to China. "Baron B. Guillaume, 'Miss Thion's. step-father and brother the Ambassador, is general manager of the Credit' Foncier D'Extreme Orient in North China, tote Police statement reads as fol-
"The Chief of Police of the British Municipal Area announces that conjunction with the Chief of Police Jot the French Municipal Ares Ferrer, B.S, Mateos, G. N. Keroor and HA. Utemoff have been detain ced for the alleged attempted criminal abduction of a young Bolginn lady from the Country Club on the eve~ ning of Saturday, December 11, 1937, "The arrests followed the discovery of the telephone wires atthe Coun: try Club having been broken, Auliries made bythe above-mentioned police have been successful. In un~ covering the whole scheme.' additionally teamed that three of the arrested men' are Russians, one of whom was arrested on Monday evening carrying in his Pocket a typed note which was Addressed to" Aliss Thion and stating that her sister had been badly in= jured "and was at the British. hospital, to which place Miss Thion was asked to proceed Immediately, The letter bore the Victoria Hospital Jetter-head, and it was subsequently discovered that one hundred sheets of this note paper had been. printed a small Russian shop in the First Special Area.
Atlempl fo Decoy Miss Thion 1 is believed that this man is the one who, on Suturday evening, went tothe Country Club and attempted 1/10 decoy" sis Thion to a wailing motor-eat, Miss Thion was. playing badminton at the time and the man President Hoover. which sent her a typewritten note from the hall "asking her to come. down, and most of her officers and Shortly prior to this Ferrer had been in the Club and reported that the telephone was out of order, later in= vestigation revealing that the wires Most people were much puzzled had been cut, when they looked out and saw that The coincidence of these two hap-the buildings on the Mole were still pon aroused the suspicion of Mr, there, Of course the mole itself, Finlay, who lives. on the Club was not demolished, "but the whole isos, and after telephoning from face of the wharf at the end of it, face Club promises nearby. he where large vessels tie up, hus been ing Russian that wrecked very efficiently" and the Miss Thion wag not on the promises. Wwatchman's little house has been He algo noted the number of the Rus lierly ruined. 'Twisted rails and sian's motorcar, this number" ever debris of stones and corrugated tually Jeading {0 the arrest of the fron roofing ure strewn all over the rman on Monday', surface of the wharf, and the edge Instead of allowing "ships to come The arrests of the other two Rus-alongside is now a slope of rough 18 quickly followed, and as a re-Of the three huge sult of statements made by them the wharf, two are Ferrer was detained for questioning anda raid wag made at & house in sticking up through the surrounding mess of rockery, but the third has been (om right up, one side of its easing rent off, and tossed nearly to the edge. A little more and would have plunged into the dock.
The ordinary stretch along the mole is undamaged except for two] or three large ten-foot. holes, an: the work of Improvement at the Jundward end has continued une disturbed by these operations, The breakwater, quite a different feature fof the harbour bounds, is of course untouched; being isolated from land it is useless for landing parties and was therefore quite exempt from {these unpleasant attentions, although seems to have been confused with the mole in some press reports Seareity of Cereals are very quiet, for Jdeyarture of the American fleet al ways leaves Chefoo so, and those who only know it in the summer nths would now think it more' than half dead, and entirely asleep.
is nine t00 good, and prices are rising, specially -eereal foods, 30 that anxiety is felt about the fulure unless some improvement is found. For many weeks we were cut off from, our mail, which oecumulsted tyne Road, British Concession, run by another Russian Mr. J. J. Gviazdo, 8 a bos house. ted that the would lended to keep their victim in a small building detached from the main building, and in sup. ort of this the Police discovered a of and a typed Mer demanding $50,000 ransom in the building, the windows of which wore draped with dark material, This Jetter is said to have been typed on a machine in Ferrer's oftlew,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.