Spirit Corps for the Recovery of the Fatherland, comprising 800 members, Mr. Uchida charged, had' been organized in November last year for the purpose of re-occupying Amoy and Quemoy Islands now in Japanese hands. Tts activities, the Japanese official alleged, consisted in schemes for the assassination of pro-Japanese officials, the distribution of -anti-Japanese handbills, the staging of anti-Japanese lecture meetings and the smuggling of revolvers. from Weitao, Also aiming at the recapture of Amoy, the Japanese communication stated, was an organization of 150 men, with headquarters in Kulangsu, consisting of Chinese soldiers formerly attached to the Commander of the 49th Division of the South Fukien Attack Corps. This group was also alleged to have plotted the assassination of members of the Amoy Peace Maintenance Commission, They are/still clinging to the faint hope that their son was picked up at sea by a ship carrying no radio equipment or that he had landed on. some isolated section of the British Isles.
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