The Archive · 1938

Chinese Government Hunting Spies

Japanese Wife of General Said To Have Been Artested Growing increasingly nervous over the rumours of a forthcoming attack on South China by Japanese troops, the Nationalt Government is making strenuous efforts to ferret out spies in all parts of the country, local Japanese. newspapers said yesterday.

Seized in one of the sweeping "spy hun" Mrs, Chen Yi, Japanese wife of Gen. Chen Yi, Chairman of the Fukien Provincial Government, now is in custody in Chungking, the papers stated, She wes arrested on orders of the Nationalist Government because of her Japanese nationality, the papers claimed.

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