Once Lui Wun-yirn had definitely decided to support the Nationalist cause, he could no longer pull harness with the other leaders of his province, who had climbed over to the other side of the political fence. He began a round-up of the more dangerous of the radicals. The Mayor of Wuchow, the young Indy Commissioner of Public Health of that city (Miss Kwok Tai-wah), th Commissioner of Public Safety' at the same port, and many others, were taken in' charge, until there were about eighty of them under guard.
The first of these prisoners were shipped to Canton by gunboat a few days ago; en route for Nanking, it id, to stand trial for their crimes, They are the leaders, but there have been arrests of numerous other persons who have not been deemed worthy of a stars trial at the capital. Being noboljes, and dangerous reactionaries, they have been, or will be, tried as ordinary criminals and Communists. Some of them were picked up in Canton before they ey: got the chance to reach Wuchow. Tu fact, it was from the lips of some of these suspects that the Kuangtung authorities first learned of the perfidy of Vu Cho-pak, that Soviet money was financing his cause, and that Kuangsi has become a hotbed of radicalism. Admitto: ly, the underworld was being trans planted to Kuangsi to stir up sed! tion, to cause it to break with Nanking, if that could be accomplished, and, if not, to plunder and destroy property.
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