Attempt to Seduce Police Force Discovered and Punished Canton, Nov. 6.
The military authorities have executed twenty policemen who were found to be Communists, These recently joined the police force with the avowed object of spreadying Red propaganda in the ranks. Thanks to excellent. intelligence work, the plot was nipped in the bud.
The Communists' plan was to obtain the ce-operation of the police the event of another Red coup Canton. Soldiers and poli be induced to join the cause so That when the time was ripe for rising to be staged there would be no opposition from the garrison or the police.
The Soviet agents are also tempting the farmer-folk to join them, but since the plots to enlist the support of the police and soldiers have been laid bare, there is but a slim chance for these trouble-makers te make any headway in Canton, It is learned that the executed Reads first got into the police service Uy enrolling as police-cadets. There training school for police from which new members of the force are recruited, These agents. sueceeded in gaining the sympathy not the actual support, of 200 Yolicemen who were all detained at the military headquarters. They Were subsequently released as they had not actually joined the Communist Party and renounced—all connection with the Reds. Among, those who were sent to the execution ground were four youths who were employed as cooks and for canteen-work in the police stations.
These Communists were sent to Canton by the Communist head. quarters, They have no fixed head. quarters, but are believed to be from the Red army commanded by Generals Chu Teh and Miao Tse-tung, in southern Kiangsi. In spite of official reports that this army hag. Leen exterminated by the government forces, these Red unite are Still active on the Kiangsi-Kuangtung border. Their stronghold is in the mountains while Soviet governments are established in the neighbouring villages and towns. Two hundred innocent people have been massacred recently while over 1,000) are missing, Tt is said that Kuangtung, Hunan, end Kiangsi have joined forees to wipe out the Reds, but so far only preliminary measures have been agreed' upon. The Kuangtung, forees are doing all they can to Frevent them coming close to the Vorders of this province—Reuter, Acconorxe to the vernacular press, the Lung-Hai Railway will completed next year. The necessary funds have been collected sind work has begun.
Acconninc to a letter received in Shanghai, a long distance motor bus "service will be inaugurated between Shaoshing and Tsaongo, towns between Ningpy and Hanzchow. la arsenic concealed beneath a drawer. Inquiries were made and it tran:
red that Mrs. Chang had called an arsenic shop on the morning. of September 12 and attempted bay two Liang of arsenic from an. assistant, Arsenic is sold in Shantung to farmers as a fertilizer, and the shop refused to sell such a small quantity. When the assistant's back was turned, however, Mrs, Chang stole a handful of the poison from a sack and made of with it, From clue to clue the pelisse followed the story until all was pieced together. It appears that the murder was planned long before. The quarrel between the tw9 Chang's on the day of the crime had nothing to do with it, as the arsenic was ready before the deed was committed. Mrs, Chang's feigned illness after her quarrel: kept her from actually witnessing: the administering of the poison. The whole crime had been planned Chang Wen-lu seems to have been brought into it afterwards assistant: He did his best to prove an alibi, but the jury of five found against him.
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