Allegations that eight men, in cluding two of three Cantonese, Yih Hai-sen, "alias "Little Cantonese," and Yang Ven-tao, accused of the murder of H. Nakayama, a Japanese marine, on November 9 last, were members of an assassination gang which had plotted to murder Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wel, and two Japanese officers order to create disturbances were made in the First Special District Court on August 5 when the Nakayama case came up before Judge Hsiao Shih-feng for another hearing.
Yang Ven-tao was questioned about two letters which he received from a Cantonese residents associa tion of Shanghai during his trip to
fers, it was said, contained a veiled threat to Rill a' certain person, answer to the Judge, Yang stated these letters referred to their attempt fo overthrow a depraved gentry his native district in Kwangiung, Chungshan, who was alleged to have unlawfully' appropriated to his own use property belonging to the public. The Judge asked Yang whether the threat to kill a person referred to in the letiors meant a plot to kill Gen. Chen Chi-tang, until recently the "Strong Man" of Kwangtung, and Yang replied "No."
Four Cantonese witnesses, all from the Yang family in Chungshan,, Kwangtung, testified about the two letters and their evidence was to the effect that the veiled threat contained in the letters meant an attempt to remove a gentry in their native district, but did not mean any plot. to kill' Gen, Chen Chictang. 'These letters were sent to Yang' Ven-ta0 during his visit to Kwangtung, wit nesses told -the court.
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