Having been subjected to_ close] examination by both the French Police and the Public Safety Bureau! authorities, the ten Chinese, six men and four women, alleged ' members of one of the most powerful political assassination gangs, were handed back to the Settlement Police on Tuesday (Oct. 16) and the Second Branch Kiangsu High Court ordered them to be returned to custody, pending the opening of their trial on the morning: of October 29.
The suspects were rounded up by officers of Chengtu Road Station following the brutal murders at the Lester Chinese Hospital. They were! suspected of being concerned in. many political murders in past years. In the Settlement court, they were accused of high treason' against the Chinese Republic on the ground that they had formed a. secret society irreconcilable with the Kuomintans principles
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