Kai-shek; Police Silent Chen Kwong-tsung and a man by the name of Chiang, who. it will be recalled, were arrested by detectives from Crime Branch Headquarters, on Friday morning, were still being ned yesterday and their release, which Chinese sóurces had forecast for yesterday, did not materialize. Whilst police quarters, approached for details on the affair yesterday, refused to make any statement, it was reliably learnt that the Japanese authorities requested the apprehension of the two men, on the basis of a document which the Japenese produced and which indicated that Cheng was Chief of Staff and Chiang Colonel -Chief of a guerilla unit operating in Kiangsu province. Cheng, it was learned yesterday, had been one of the chiefs of the Bureau of Public Safety of the City Government of Greater Shanghai, for five years prior to the outbreak of hostilities in 1937.
The authenticity of the document in which the two men are quoted as being high guerilla officers, is at present being checked, it was understood, whilst the men are being questioned and their past records investigated. According to one source, Chiang is said to be a distant cousin of the Generalissimo, but this could not be confirmed. It was nevertheless presumed that considerable importance is attached to the two arrests, the silence on the part of pao officials. seemingly confirming this.
The two men, it will be recalled. are the managing director. and director respectively, of the Far Eastern Trading Ca., at 150 Kiangse Road, where they were arrested by detectives from S. M. P. Headquarters, The firm, which these two men head. is engaged in various lines of business and when it was first formed, in 1997, bought Wei Wah currency on the market. As far as could be learned from Chinese sources, the two men have had no political affüliations whatsoever since the outbreak of hostilities and were said to be prosperous businessmen who attend their office daily.
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