Irregulars Under Liu Kwei-tang Turn on Japanese Paoting, Sept. 10.
Further details were received here to-day on the spectacular defection of irregulars under Liu Kwei-tang against their Japanese pay-masters near Fengtai on August 27.
It was revealed that Liu, a resourceful commander of guerilla war-riots, harboured the intention of raising the Chinese standard sometime ago, but he deliberately postponed his plans until one day after he was issued 2,000 new Japa rifles and two months' rations for his men.
On the momentous night of August 27, five hundred of his men in mufti stormed the Japanese aerodrome at Fengtai south of Peiping, where after having overcome the handful of Japanese guards they set fire to seven Japanese aircraft aground and thousands of tins of gasoline. Then they beat a swift retreat into the protective kaoliang groves near by.
However, scores of Liu's plain-clothes men were arrested in Peiping They all met death.—Central News. ce
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