Alleged Traitor Kidnapped by Nanitao Police Two detectives attached to. the City Government Police Bureau, a private detective and a chauffeur, were charged in the First Special District Court this week with kid: napping Li An-tung from his Tsepoo Road home. After a protracted trial, all the prisoners were found not guilty. The complainant was ordered by. the Judge, however, to be handed over to the" Shanghai' and Woosung military authorities on suspicion of being a traitor to the Chinese.
It appeared that, between 2 and 3. pin. on Tuesday; the detective party from the City Government Police Bureau took Li An-tung away in a motor car without first asking the S. M, Police for aid. When the car reached Route Ghisi, French Concession, Li shouted for help, which attracted the attention of the Frendh Police. The car was then stopped and the party taken to the French Police Station, where a telephone message was sent to the Crime Branch Headquarters, S. M. Police, as the affair occurred in the Settlement.
At the Settlement police station, the City Government detectives stated that they went to arrest Li An-tung by order of Gereral Yang Hy, the Chinese garrison com-danger, information having, been received that Li was suspected of having been supplying the Japanese forces with oil and fuel. Li, it was alleged, did the same thing during the hostilities of 1932, The allegations were danied by Li who said the trouble had been caused by two of his brothers, with whom he: had quarrels over the division of their father's estates. Although he formerly worked for the Japanese firm, Messrs, Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Szechuen Road, he had not conspired with the Japanese against the Chinese, Li stated
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