Harbin, Oct, 14.
Twenty-five suspects have been arrested by the authorities in. connection with the brutal murder of Mrs. Woodruff Inst Wednesday.
They have been put through a grilling examination which is. said to have revealed that two of them apparently have some responsibility, one named Chang Nan-yen, an ex-soldier who is notorious as the leader of a band of kidnappers, The police claim that they have found it was the same group. which planned the attack on two British residents on the golf course on [September 10, Tt is believed by the
tical backing as. their latest out= authorities that the gang has' pole rage appears, to have been carried out systematically for the purpose of embarrassing the authorities in the eyes of the foreign Powers.
Widely felt and profound sym pathy was apparent on Thursday at the funeral of Mrs, Woodruff, The entire consular body attended and a huge crowd of foreign idants, including many Russians.
The ceremony was conducted by, Mr. ©. Leonard of the Lutheran Church at the Newtown cemetery—Reuter.
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