The unfortunate victim was Mr. Prank Poletti, Postal Commissioner of the Peiping Postal Administration and Lallan subject. Mr. Poletti was in the obit of spending his Sundays {in visits to interesting places which the Japanese authorities have always asserted was completely pacified. On January Mr. Poletti went by car to the Ming Tombs, accompanied by Russian lady frond, chauffeur and cook.
Tombs, a favour town of Changpingchow. where there fea permanent Japanese garrison, When they had gone about a mite beyond this place, the party. stopped to have tifin by the roadside, Just they wore in the middle of their macaroni, a body of armed Chinese in uniform suddenly put in an appoaranes and started questioning them. 'Thinking that they were the ordinary local police or militia, Mtr. Poletti and his companion were in tne way alarmed at frst and took ttle notice of them. "When. however. the chauffeur in replying to their ques tions stated' that is master was an Italian, a complete change came over the eons.
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