Great importance is attached by the Chinese authorities to the arrest, by the Municipal Police, of Chen Tuchsiu, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the C.E.C. of Kuomintang prior to. the "Party purification movement, and ten of his confederates, who' were handed over to the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety after a Tengthy trial before the Second Branch Kiangsu High Court According to officials of the City Government of Greater Shanghai, 4 telegram has been received from 'Nanking, ordering the extradition of Chen' and his confederates to the capital for trial, Before being drought to Nanking, which is ex-ceted in a day or two, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and his confederates will be subjected to a preliminary trial by Chinese authorities, officials of the City Government stated yesterday.
The extradition of the eleven al-Joged Communists to the extra. Settlement authorities was granted under strong protests of the accused who asked that the case against them be heard by the Settlement Court. Their request, was rejected the Court declaring that as the ae cused had been arrested at the vequest of Chinese authorities, they should be handed over in accordance with the Rendition Agreements The trial of the accused was "conducted in camera -by order of the Court, 'To complete the round-up of the alleged" Communist leaders, the police arrested another Chinese on Monday at 315° Meo Kwong Lee Alley, off Tongshan Road, where raid had been conducted' on Sunday when a large quantity of Com-minnist literature was seized. The arrested man, where name wax Kuo Ching-hao, alias, Pan Dang-tse, tempted to enter the house. A' detective left there immediately put him under arrest. The man's House off Burkill Road was Inter searched and more Communist Mterature was found.
Kuo was brought before the Sec-and Branch Kiangsu High Court on Oct, 18. An application for is extradition was made a representative of the Public Safety Bureau of Nantao. After searching examination, the accused was ordered handed over to the Chinese authorities.
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