The Archive · 1939

Journalists Threatened

In "Pidgin" English Shanghai, Feb. 10, The French Police and the Settle.

Police were yesterday investigating the alleged sending of letters, in pidgin" English, threatening a numa liber of foreign and Chinese journalists fand writers, most of whom are at present in Shanghai, The letter, it Is reported, "pra-ounces to death on Mr. Carroll Alcott, reporter and radio comrentator; Messrs, Randall Gould and M. C. Ford, of the "Shanghai Even-Ing Post and Mercury"; Mr. J.-B Powell, of the "China Weekly Review": Miss Agnes Smedley: Signor Amleto Vespa: Me. H. J. Timperley; Mr. J. A. E. Sanders Bates and Mr. Kwel Chung-shu, According to the report, the threats emanate from the "Society of Most Honorable and Righteuse of Triwe Chinese."

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