Two other reasons have been given. One is that it was due to the intervention of Marshal Wu Pel-fu, order to prove to the Japanese the strength of his influence, If that were so, one would have expected that it would have been given every. possible publicity, instead of being. kept a dead secret, Moreover. this report comes from very doubtful sources.
The other suggestion is that the gueriliag were acting. on the direct. orders of the Central Government in Chungking. "Favouring this view is the fact "that it was known here several weeks ago already, that both the Post Ofice Administration here and also the Italians had appealed {o the Chinese Government to obtain his release. Moreover, about a fortnight prior to Mr. Poletti's release it close touch with the affair that the Chungking Government "had issued orders that he was to be set free. It must be said that this does seem to be the most reasonable explanation of an otherwise unique occur "The greatest torture of all that Stich as "Forly Days in the Hands of, Fence in the history of Chinese kid-he had to undergo, said Mr. Poletti, ICI jose Bandits" are very pleasant napping.
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