SPIES IN CANTON
EXECUTION ORDERED
BANDITS RELEASE FOREIGNERS
(Received September 17, 1.10 pan.) LONDON, September 16.
The "Daily Mail's" Hong Kong corr* spondent says that following a Japanese- air raid on Canton last night, the Governor, Mr. Wu, ordered the arrest, mutilation, and execution of forty traitors who sent up Verey lights to indicate objectives to bombing planes.
Chinese servants at the German Consulate were arrested on charges of espionage.
A Peking message states that ban* dits have ■ released without ransom three more foreigners who were kidnapped at the Heishan Kow mission school, as a result of more patriotic guerrilla bands disarming the criminal element after the failure of other gangs to seize captives and hold them to ransom. The Japanese did not take military action lest the bandits murdered the captives. The remaining threa were kept as hostages.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 9
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