Canton, Sept. 16. 'A horde of communist-bandits 1ed Lieut.-Col.
'Kaneshiro Shibayama, assistant Military Attache to the Japanese Legation, and Mr. Yin Tun, Alrector of the Peking-Mukden Rallway and an emissary of Mr. Huang Fu, chairman of the Peking' Branch Political Council and was zed. Men who accompanied th were also captured.
Army Annoyed Japanese military authorities here declined to discuss the purporter. statements of the arrested peddlers on the ground that the investigation was still under way.
however, stated that they were "very much annoyed" by the irresponsible statements of a group of Chinese officials who are attempt ing to cover up their complicity in these smuggling activities by charg Ing that we are affording "military protection" to such shipments.
"IE these Chinese officials do not desist from casting slurs upon the honour of the Japanese "army by charging that we are taking a hand the smuggling of opium by label~ ling such shipments as "military supplies", we shall have to consider steps that will make them halt."
These steps, one officer indicated, would consist in giving full publletty to the confessions of the smugglers— by the notorious Red leader Ho Luny sustained a heavy defeat at Kwei chow, according to a report received here from General Wong Chak-lich.
Tt is stated that the comsmunist-ban-
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