Arrested While Serving In the Astor House 'A Chinese spy who was seized by Japanese Consular Police and brought before a court-martial was executed by a fung squad here March 5, local Japanese newspapers said on March 14.
Acting on orders from the headquarters of a Chinese speret. service, the man, Wu Chih-yuan, 29, who belonged' to the Kiangsu "and Chekiang Anti-Japanese Society, oblali= ed employment at the Astor House, Whangpoo Road, on December 7, the "Shanghai Mainichi" said. He' represented himself as a Formosan because of his knowledge of the Japanese language, learned during fan eight-year, residence in Kobe, Ten days later he was arrested by the Consular Police on a charge of espionage, His espionage aqtivitles Were established by the court= martial according to the paper
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