in Korea, Manchuria Seoul, Aug. 31 Three Korean graduates of the Nanking Military Academy, and several others have been arrested by the police in Helan-Hokudo Province on a charge of having attempted to create disturbances in Korea and Manchou-no, according to reports here to-day.
Following receipt of information that' many Koreans and Manchus had been sent to Man~ churia and Korea for the purpose of instigating an anti-Manchoukuo campaign, the police started a man hunt in every "province, 'The authorities charged' the arrested Koreans with plotting the assassination of high—government offcials—United Press. the Governor of Shantung's commanders, Chao Ming-yuan, had attempted for some time without suc cess to persuade the former pirates to disgorge the loot they had' taken from the s. Shuntien. " Convinced at Length by their refusal to restore the proceeds of the piracy that they were Insincere, this commander summoned the newly enlisted pirates to a milltary" review at 'a. place called Litsing. On August 22 the ex-pirates turned up at the rendezvous, only fo be mowed down by machine-gun Dullets from troops posted In ambush Found the meeting place, Two Mours Bight According to the telegrams the expirates, "though taken. by surprise, managed to put up some resistance for nearly two hours. The odds against them were, however, "too great and they were' wiped onl to a man. The Shantung troops recover: Jed 64 rifles belonging to the slain marauders, and one gramophone and six blankets believed to have been part of the loot from the Shuntien.
Tt will be recalled that the es [Shuntien, the newest of the China [Navigation Co's coastal steamers, was pirated on June 18 after leaving [Tientsin on her way to Chefoo, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Shanghai. Pirates disguised as passengers took control of the ship and navigated her the mouth of the Yellow River fatter having seriously wounded. Mr. 3. P. Ross, the third officer." They ferried off with them six' foreign, passengers—two British naval officers, Eieuts. P. L. Field and J. D. Luce, Mr. Graeme D. Nicholl of Shanghai, Mr. G. L. Brand, Mr. H. McDowall, officers of the ship, and Mr. Yamajmoto, a. Japanese passenger—and twenty Chinese passengers.
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