The Archive · 1939

Legal Tangles

Meantime Japanese _authoriti ran into legal tangles as Chinese suspects laid claims to various nationalities. In some cases, prisoners asserted that they had two to three nationalities besides being Chinese.

Information gleaned by investigators today pointed to the existence in Kulangsu of a Chinese organization closely affiliated to the Fourth Route Army.

Based upon Gen. Chiang Kai'shek's second plan for resistance, the* organization was alleged to have planned terrorist attacks against Chinese ce-operating with the Japanese in Order to instill fear among overseas Chinese showing anti-Chiang leanings. Many overseas Chinese originally sailed from Amoy.

The direction of this terrorist organization had been entrusted to an influential Chinese who recently arrived in Kulangsu from Swatow, it was alleged.

The Municipal Council held an emergency session yesterday after-

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