Alleged "Traitor to Nation"
/Hu Li-fu, proprietor of a piece goods shop' off Penang Road, for Whose arrest a warrant was issued by Gen, Wa Te-chen, the Mayor of treater Shanghai, in April last on a charge of being concerned with Several others not in custody' in the establishment of the Chapel "puppet" administration following the withdrawal of the 19th Route Army from Shanghai, is now in the custody of the Bureau, of Public Safety and, after a preliminary examination by officials of the Bureau, will be. handed over either to the Lunghua military authorities or the Soochow High Court for trial.
'Hu, together with Koo Chu-hsien, a theatre manager; Chang ching, owner of the Ta Kuan Yua futivhouse; and' Wang "Doo a Ghapei merchant, were branded as "tralors™ by the Chinese because of their alleged connections with the Japanese, It, was alleged that following the, withdrawal of the 49th Route Army from Chapel. these Chinese, acting under instruc tions from the Japanese, establish-oda "puppet administration in Ghapei "known as the Northern District Maintenance Association.
"Although the announced object of establishing the administration was the "streets: of "debris
of property by war refugees, it was ell, na ce facitate the ems Mlaged by Chinese" thay the. men employed by the Association resort-fo the practice of exacting money
fete there during the ghlings Te pel to take out. their proper van? refugees ho returned
was further" alleged that. the Asoclation reaped huge profits during the neviod of Japanese occupation
Bling houses.
cheng of dens Sad" game Ap order was subsequently issued by the City Government of Greater Shanghai for the arrest of the Teaders of the alleged Chapei
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