Two Chinese, who admitted that they plotted to' bomb or burn the Chinese-language "newspaper "Morning Leader" on behalf of a Japanese named Shiotani and the so-called "Economic Rehabilitation Society were sentenced to fifteen years in prison each yesterday in the First Special District Couit, where they appeared on remand, charged with instigating arson. The "Economic Rehabilitation Society" is a Japanese-sponsored organization with headquarters in Brenan Road, according testimony.
Besides the "Morning Leader, which is published by the British-owned University Press at 130 Ningpo Road, the accused are said to have conspired to fire three other foreign-registered Chinese papers in the International Settlement and French Concession. The publishing of alleged anti-Japanese articles in these journals, it is held, provided the underlying motive for the contemplated acts of terrorism.
The plot involving the "Morning Leader" was to have been realized
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