Procurator to be Charged Ovet Release of Committeeman Hankow, Aug. 26.
Mr, Hu Shu, Chief Procurator of the Wuchang District Court, has fbcen detained at the Headquarters Jof the Honan-Hupeh-Anhui Bandit suppression Forces here pending action by the Judicial Yuan,. He will be tried in connection with the release of Liu Wen-chen, Chair= man of the Committee for Cus tody of Dyke Construction "Funds; Hupeh, who was charged with the, misappropriation of $800,000, Charged with conspiring with. many unscrupulous merchants. in the embezzlement of public funds, Liu was arrested. Alleged to be the leader of the group, he was held responsible for the $800,000 misappropriated. Of this sum' he later returned $630,000.
While Liu was still under Jexamination by the Procurator's Office, Chief Procurator Hu, unden certain pretexts, set him free. This faction was brought, to the notice of Gen, Chiang Kai-shek who immediately ordered Hu's detention, He will be tried by the Disciplinary Committee of the Judicial Yuan—Kuo Min, etimographical collection for the Brooklyn Museum, including cos tumes, "implements" and" other objects illustrating the life of the people, of Northern Tibet; (2); Teedical research among the Tibet and (3) to make a complete botanical collection, at the same time secking a type of edible grass suitable for planting in the barren areas of the United States, Owing to subsequent changes. in Peking, the expedition did not startes first organised and Mr, fand Mrs. Lamb eventually set, out fo. travel in the North-West themselves "while the other members all returned home. The fact explain nese ens
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The persons responsible for the taliation againat the scents and Mir Wife are clearly very. much astray in this respect and it wou Bod Hattie Sees can given to their more fanciful charges until these have been sub-Stanflated as requested "by "the American Legation in Peking.
Similar agitation has eon, raised in the past againat noted. fore explorers and' scientists like Sit Aurel Stein, Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews and Dr. Sven Hedin, upon equally baseless charges. The Association for the Preservation of Cultural Objects, which has lent its support to the present moves ment, succeeded in compelling Sit Aurel "Stein to" leave Chinese Turkestan—Reuter,
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