Peiping, Dec. 5.
Questioned at a press conference regarding reports that Marshal Wu Pei-fu, China's warrior poet, who died yesterday afternoon, had recent. ly refused a Japanese demand to head the army of the "Provisional Government" of Peiping. a Japanese spokesman said there was no truth in these rumours.
From reliable local sources, however, it is learned the Marshal had again turned down requests to serve in a "puppet" organization, insisting that Japanese troops should be first withdrawn from China.
"He had been repeatedly approach ed by the Japanese, but adamantly refused to "ce-operate" in the new regime.
Marshal Wu Pei-fu, it is learned, died between 4 p.m. and 5 pin, ye terday, following infection caused by extraction of a tooth. He was attended by a local German doctor who was present when the Marshal died. Immediately afterwards, it is unde: stoòd, a cordon of Japanese gendarmes was thrown round the house.
The Marshal's illness was mentioned for the first time in the local Chinese-language press today. it being reported he was attended by several local foreign and Chinese The alleged anti-Japanese terrorists the opposite side of the Amur isk stands the Were handed over to the Chinese High Court in Tientsin on September 5 by city of Saghalien, the British Municipal Police, and the wp to this day a number óf live according to Japanese gendarmerie completed the ut traditions of life. Three compiling of me Óour men's "confessions" nearly ten wi Fed years ago their ancestors Dar weeks later, on The confessions, according to a Chinese report published) here, filled no "of Russian women in this "persecution. a for the Far DUE less than 2,110 pages.
Chinese, and a "generation of half-castes has They relapsed into comparative obscurity after their case had won born, This mixture of Russian Prominence in the British press for d Chinese blood, once reported the a considerable period, and had been can missionary Mr. Corcoran, in well-built and handsome made the subject of statements and questions in the House of Commons, minent British legal Eo un an action in Shanghai in 1935 and from the {Institute in 3937. He title of railway engineer. educational department Students Plot Against Yugoslav Leaders Belgrade, Dec. 5.
Forty Croat extremists, mostly Were arrested at Zagreb esterday, as the result of the discovery of a plot against the Vice-President of the Yugoslav Government, who is a Croat leader, and the Governor of Crostia—United Press
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.