The Archive · 1940

Terrorists Condemned In Kulangsu

Amoy, Apr. 6.

Thirteen Chinese' terrorists, convicted of the murder of Mi Hwang Lien-feng, councillor of the Special Municipality of Amoy, were sentenced to death by a' Japanese court martial here today. Mr. Hwang was slain in the Kulangsu Inter national Settlement on January 8 by a terrorist gang headed by one Yang Yung-lo—Domei. rorism after a protracted interval of quiet, when Chang Shih-hua, 22-year-old student of tke French College, Hautes Etudes, was abducted from his residence in the British Concession by several Chinese this afternoon.

Me was hustled into a car which /sped away on Race Course Road toward the barrier. The ear stalled but was pushed and started again. It disappeared in the opposite direction.

Police were notified half an hour after the incident, They are investigating in the hope that the driver of the car did not have sufficient time to comply with formalities for passage through the barriers which surround the British and French Ce The motive for the abduction is not clear ar the vielim ts a member of a middle. class family. tt Teved that he had' politico tions.—Reuter.

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