The Archive · 1932

Plot to Upset City Government

Leader of Alleged Reactionaries Taken Into Custody One more arrest has been made

charged. with organising ay_ acme ihe"Cate goat the fon Chine force known as the Southeastern Self-Protection Army for the alleged purpose of overthrowing the pres~ ent administration Shanghai in order to gain reins of power for themselves. It may. be recalled the ten persons were Jarrested in the foreign Settlement fon March 12 and handed over to the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety two days afterwards, The latest arrest, was also made the Municipal Police at: the request of the Chinese authorities, Reting upon information furnished by detectives of the Public Safety Bureau, officers of the Settlement Police aided a house in an alley~ way off Seymour Road on March 19 and took into custody a Chinese by the name of Chiang Min-chi who ix the alleged Tender of the kang of reactionaries, Many important documents. were seized, amongst which was @ letter alleged" to, contain important information concerning the' plot. te upset "the City. Government of Greater Shanghai, Brought, before the Special District Court, an application for the prisoner's extradition was made by a representative of the Public Safety Bureau. The Court, hov= over. remanded the prisoner ly, pending the receipt of an official despatch from the

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