Supreme Penalty Dairen, Sept. 14.
It is reliably learned that the four "foreigners sentenced to.death in connection with the piracy of the Chinese steamer Sheng An in june, 1933, were put to death by: [strangulation at Port Arthur on The condemned men were Capt: Jain Hugo Taudien, the ringleader of the gang, Heinrich Westermann, Arthur Gautcht and Walter Muller. 'AI of them were German with the exception of Gautchi, who was Swiss.
'The fifth accused, George Schroedfor, Is serving a sentence of ten years' imprisonment.
grim feature of the affair that "Gautchi and ° Muller were Jsentenced to life imprisonment, but! thad their sentences altered to capital punishment by the Appelate Court}
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