Two Kuominchun Men Carried Off While Preparing to Flee"to Tientsin 'An interesting story has come to ight with the publication in the Chinese press recently of a report that the local Kuomintang' and the Public Safety Bureau have been awarded $4,000 by the Nanking Government' for the kidnapping of two Kuominchun generals from the French Bund on October 26.
Tnvestigation reveals a sinister story that moves from Nanking to Shanghai and would. have continued on to Tientsin but for the intervention of the Chinese police und military detectives who exeeuted a coup in the Prench Concession without anyone being the wiser.
'The story starts in Nanking' whither the two: Kuominchun officials were carrying " on secret investigations of their own. They were not troop commanders, but, rather, were intelligence men and were highly placed in their special Uvanch, Whether or not they were successful in the northern city only the Chinese authorities can say, and they have kept reticent on the matte Found Out in Nanking any event the two completed their work and were making preparations to come to Shanghai to! take a steamer for Tientsin when Nanking got on their trail.
Investigations into their activ ties followed and had not proceeded far when the two got wind that they were being trailed and made a Rasty Might. from the capital They came to Shanghai, hid in the French Concession ang purchased tickets for Tientsin intending to go orth on the first vessel.
Meanwhile the Nanking secret service got wind of their intentions and two members made a hasty trip here to apprehend them if they had not sailed.
The Nationalist detectives arrived on the evening on which the men were to leave. Through devious channels, known only to themselves, they discovered that the two planned to sail north on a Butterfield Swire boat, but they could not conte the place their quarry were supposed to be living, Consequently their plans woul have come to naught but for a daring plan which they originated.
Hiring a motor car they went to the Butterfield & Swire wharf some hours before the ship, was to sail and assuming disguises secreted themselves about the place to! scrutinize whoever went aboard.
When a slight drizzle started the setting contained all that a lurid fiction story could promise. The parked motor ear of the Nationalist detectives with its softly purring motor, the two disguised and secreted on the deserted wharf, the vessel standing by loaded and awaiting sailing time, and the much-sought-after secret' service men who were due to arrive, And all wit earshot of the French police patrolling the Bund,
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