Petition for Leniency Towards Chie€ Culprit. in Nanking Nanking, Nov. 14, Chairman Tan Yen-kal and Chairman Feng Executive Yuan, in a joint peti" tion to the State Council, pleaded for Ienioney to Cheng Chien was recently dismissed and placed in confinement by the Government for having ignored the orders of the Government Council and acted contrary to the wishes of the Centrak Authorities.—Kuo Min, ***General Cheng Chien, suther of the Nanking Outrage of March 24, 1927, was arrested in Wuchame and his soldiers surrounded and dis armed on May 21. The charge was that he had been plotting against the Nationalist authorities. He has. since been kept in durance.
Does the above message mean that. now that all the aggrieved nations in respect of the Nanking outrage have consented to wipe sponge over the past, Cheng Chien, od? 1 the chief culprit, is to be. reinstate
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