Hankow. Jan. 54.
General Han Fu-chu, former Chairmen of Shantung and concurrently. Commander-in-Chief of, the Third Army Corps. was executed here early this evening in accordance with military law.
The death sentence was pronounced Oy he highest military tribunal fcr the trial of Genera] Han, wno was found guilty of disobeying miti'ary order and evacuating Tsinan, the provincin capital of Shantung, and other important military areas.
Aged 47 and a native of Pahsien, Hope;, General Han was Chairman of Honan in 1928. He was appointed Commander of the First Army in 1930. In September the same year. He was given the post of Chairman of Shantung. When the present Sino-Japanese hostilities broke out, he was entrusted with the duty of defending Shantung—Kuo Min.
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