Chauffeur Identifies Man as Abductor Caarges of kidnapping and armed ebber were specified in the First Special District Court yesterday against Chu Zang-kwei who was arrested by the S.M. Police in a tea shop off Siccawei Road on July 7 and who made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide after arrest by force ing the sharpened end of a chopstick into his temple. The attempt resulted in Chu's detention in the Police Hospita! until July 13.
The kidnapped person was Loh Tuhming, the seven-year old son of a well-to-do rickshaw hong proprietor, who was carried away from outside 35 Jehol Road on June 23 last by, it was alleged, Chu Zang-kwei and several others, Although Chu denied the charge of kidnapping, he w identified in the court by a hire car chauffeur as one of the men who took part in the abduction. The kidnapped boy was released several days og but his relatives denied that ransom money had been paid to the gang Chu, it was further alleged by th prosecution, was also concerned in a robbery committed at 24/228 Burkill Road, on January 31, 1 reigned with Chu yesterday were o men and a woman rounded up China has made considerable progress, both qualitative and quantitative, in developing various grades of education during the past few years, cedared Mr, Wang Ching-wei, Chairman of the Central Political Council, in a speech reviewing present educational conditions in China before a group of Chinese educational and technical workers at Kuling on July Mr. Wang began his review by describing the five-year compulso education plan to give free schooling to at least 80 per cent. of the total 40,000,000 school-age children in the country, which has been made by the Ministry of Education. Although more than half of them are still illiterate, aid Mr. Wang, expenses for compulsoi education are on the in se every year. While the total naunt for 1935 was $14,700,000, that vf 1936 rose to $20,120,000. The number of children receiving education during the same period has also been creased by more than 5000000 students
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