The Archive · 1938

Pirates Executed at

Soochow

Men Caught in Attack On Passenger Junk Four pirates, arrested by the Kiangsu Provincial Police after having participated in the hold-up of a passenger junk near the Soochow-Kashing High were executed at Soochow on Friday, it was reported yesterd Because of outlaw activity along the highway and in the vicinity of Tungshihu recently, the number of pstrolmen was increased by the Kiangsu Provincial Police.

On Friday, while on their usual round, the patrolman encountered a band of pirates who had held up a Lich Li-bound passenger junk at a place known as Hua King Kong.

In a ten-minute engagement with the pirates, the patrolman arrested four of them and seized two rifle Kobe, July 30.

Father Jacquinot de Besange, founder of the Shanghai refugee zone, whose holiday at a seaside resort caused fears in many quarters that he had mysteriously di appeared, sailed here for Shanghai at 4 o'clock this morning aboard the three pistols and one of the outlzs boat.

The arrested men, having confessed to the crime, were sentenced to death according to the Regulations Governing the Punishment of Bandits and executed, the reports said. s. Felix Roussel.

The French Jesuit priest was located by newspaper men yesterday at the home ofa friend, Mr. Kazuo Fukikawa, in Tarumi, a town near Kobe, after his whereabouts had been unknown for eight days following his arrival at Yokohama in the Empress of Asia.

He told newsmen he had gone to Tarumi to rest after his long trip from America. He was astonished to learn that he was believed to be missing. Father Jacquinot had been in America and Canada on a tour to raise funds for refugees.—Domei.

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