The letter then concluded with the appeal that the Shanghai Municipal Council be requested to make strong representations quickly so as to secure the immediate release of the five persons and to guarantee against repetition of the incident.
While the above loiter was being studied by the Association another Chinese was reported to have been kidnapped early yesterday morning presumably for political reasons, It was hard to ascertain the nationality of his kidnappers, however. The report stated that at about 5 a.m. a young Chinese man dressed in grey foreign clothes was kidnapped by several men who forced him into a waiting motor car and drove him to an unknown destination.
The affair occurred in the ext Settlement road area near Avenue Haig (within the western district) and it was claimed that the kidnapping was witnessed by some people who saw the victim making futile efforts to struggle for freedom. It was further stated that the victim might be Tseng Sen, a special agent sent from Chungking. He was said to be a friend of General Hsiung Gien-tung, a guerilla commander arrested sometime ago in Shanghai who is being detained in Hongkew.
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