ENSATIONAL revelations concerning the pro-Japanese terrorist gang known as the "Hwang Tao" or "Yellow Way" Society and its associates were made yesterday afternoon in the course of a three-hour hearing held behind closed doors in the First Special District Court.
The disclosures chiefly served to shed light on the kidnapping and brutal murder of Mr. Tsai Tiao-editor of the Chinese newspaper "The Social Evening News, whose severed head was found on February 6, last, near the French Concession Police Headquarters in Route Stanislas Chevalier. warning in Chinese not to engage in anti-Japanese activities was pinned to an electric light post above the head. The remainder of the body was never found.
Thè facts given below are part of the evidence offered in court yesterday by four Chinese arrested by the Settlement Police in recent weeks for complicity in the murder. Their names are Yang Kya-chu (alias "Colonel" Walter Yang), Zing Sih-kong, Hsu Tuli-ling, and Zung Sih-kong.- Hsu Tuli-ling, and all have various aliases.
The late Mr. Tsai Tiao-tu went to. Hongkew on the forenoon of February 5 last, in his own motorcar, and proceeded to the New Asia Hotel, headquarters of the "Huang Tao" gang and later of the so-called "Ta Tao" administration, it was revealed in court yesterday.
He again visited the New Asia on the evening of February 5, when he was murdered. On that evening, Yang Kya-chu and Zing Sih-kong, according to their testimony, lured the Chinese editor to the hotel at the instigation of a Chinese not now under arrest, and a Japanese named Konomi, whose present whereabouts are not known to the police either. Konomís name is often mentioned in "Huang Tao" cases.
"Colonel" Walter Yang, a former university student, and Chinese Customs man assistant in an American lawyer's office in Shanghai, said that Tsai was taken away from the dinner table in the New Asia Hotel the evening of February 5. It was about 8 o'clock, and two Japanese removed Tsai after speaking in Japanese to the Japanese host at the gathering. Tsai was not seen again Yang said. The follow-his head was found in Route Stanislas Chevalier. after the disappear-"Colonel" Yang was appointed "Chief of the General Office of the Asia Rehabilitation A Chinese whom he recognized was shaking him by the shoulder.
The other man held a pail in his hand, He instructed Hsu to "wash the head," according to Hsu's evidence.
Hsu, struggling to get wide-away asked groggily, "What kind of head?"
The answer, Hsu said, was "an anti-Japanese human head,'
Hsu looked into the pail and saw, truly enou; It was c 3 Hsu said he would not wash 1t, but he was told that if he did not he would have trouble, After some persuading he finally agreed to perform the gruesome task after switching off the light in the bathroom. Two other Chinese helped him. Hsu was curious and asked Whose head it was, He said he was told that it was Tsai's and that it had been chopped off, by "one Konomi,"
The cogue testified that he wi not paid anything for washing Tsai's head but that he heard, at about March 10, while visiting 86 Jessfield Road, two other Chinese members of the "organization" boast that they had received $5 for the work. They were the two men who had helped him do the "job."
After hearing this and much other testimony, the Judge adjourned the case yesterday till an unnamed date,
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