Detained by Nanking Public Safety Bureau 'A large gambling house was raided in Nanking by officers of the Public Safety Bureau on the evening of September 14, resulting in 32 persons being arrested and a large quantity of gambling paraphernalia " seized, including poker, pa-chin dice, - and fan-tan. Among the persons. arrested were many high officials government offices in Nanking' and two women, With the exception of the women who were bailed out, all the prisoners were detained at" the) Public Safety Bureau, pending their appearance in the Nanking Distret Court.
On Monday morning, Sept. 16, Mr. Wang. Ching-wei, president of the. Executive Yuan, issued an order saying, that many officials of the Executive Yuan were among the persons arrested in the raid, Mr." Wang ex-rested his indignation at the wan-fonness and lack of discipline among the oflcials of his Yuan. The chief secretary of the Yuan, Mr. Wang said in his order, should immediately find out the names of those arrested [in the gambling house and suspend. them temporarily, pending their transfer to the competent authorities for punishment, Information which led to the a rests was first received by the secret service men of the Public Safety Bureau in the. form of pamphlets, which instructed those who had received the notice to attend at a certain time, a "round-table conference" which was to be followed enlarged conference"" The officers first suspected that the meeting was called by some secret—political organization, so. investigations were immediately started, which resulted in the discovery of the big gambling house. finees to a close, a general offensive will be Taunched within a few days fon the Communist remnants in the border regions of Fukien, Chekiang, Anhwei, and Kiangsi provinees, it was announced here this morning.
The campaign which aims at exterminating the dying influence of Communism in that section of the county once for all, itis learned, will jointly. be waged by Red-suppression forces of the four provinces—Central News.
Victory tu Hunan Changsha, Sept. 23.
A notable victory culminating in the killing of Hsu Yen-kang, Red bandit leader of the so-called Hunen-Hupeh-Kiangsi "Soviet" area, has been scored by the brigade under Major-General Chu Kang-wei, attached to the Seth Division under'Lieut-General Yo Sen at Yunchu Shan (mountain), aecordjing to an oficial telegram from the front—Kuo Min, Gen, Chiang Katshek has been elected honorary president of the Institute, with Messrs. Wang Ching-wei, Hu Han-min, Wu Tse-hui, Chang Ching-kiang, Tsai Yuan-pel, Vu Yur jen, Chang Chi, and Niu Jung-chien as honorary directors, Mr. Chu Cheng, president of the Judicial Yuan, has been elected chair~ man of the Board of Directors, and Messrs. Tan Chen, vice-president. of the Judicial Yuan, and Tal Oki-tao, president of the Examination Yuan, deputy chairman, Seven have been elected "members of the Standing Committee of the Institute, namely, Me. Sun Fo, president of the Legis lative Yuan; Mr, Yeh Chu-tsang, Secretary-General of the Central Kuomintang; Mr. Wang Yung-pin, Minister of Justice; Mr. Mao Eh chuen, president of the Administr tive Court; Mr. Chino Yi-tang, pres dent of the Supreme Court; Mr. Chen Liu, and Mr. Chang Chih-pen.
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