"BLOOD AND IRON" SOCIETY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 3

"BLOOD AND IRON" SOCIETY.

MACHINATIONS IN CHINA. . Bomb explosions are -becoming so •common in Shanghai as to pass almost Tirinoticed,' but, they*... reveal the continual ferment of-conspiracy which goes •on in China to-day. Another of these ■outrages occurred here a fortnight "but the full story has only just been unravelled by the police, writes the Shanghai correspondent of the "London << j)aiJy News/' last month. .. Last December a man named Dzung Kohtsoo came to a house in the outskirts of- Shanghai and .hired a room. He gave out that he was a school teacher, and was away from his room «very morning and afternoon. At night Jhe r ,dicTnotsgo : out,...and no., inmate of thehojuse was fallowed Jnto his room, though lie* was constantly visited by a frieritf, si^ce*.arrested and- identified" as an ac-' night the inmates were startled ■ from sleep by a terrific ex; plpsion in Dzung's room, followed -by agonising groans: The landlady, terrorstricken,'called in the police. v *When the forced .Dzung was, found -lying" on the floor with one" arm, completely. to)rn,pff, and the other so injured/'that ithas since been amputated. , Presumably he* had been mixing chemicals in a mortar when they exploded. ' - _■"> ■: I Gunpowder ; Tina on 'the' JBed. .;

• The room was a strange-museum of paraphernalia and literature." Much/of the furniture was blown to' atoms, -.while, curiously enough, there wereTplenty- of explosives whichihad not been| fired off by the crash. {Quantities of gunpowder in lots of about lib each wfere v laid out on the 'bed.- There were rowsV of, bottles containingv various cHemicals/v.hj,tric arid sulphuric acid, "etc.;" and .instruments "for chemical analysis; :;.also ,:'.-. a Mauser pistol and boxes fof cartridges, ai;.veell .as piles, of AJiarchicai correspondence ■-'• and literaiwceXX '--'' "«-".'•; .'.•:',.-■'.-, • " ';■■■' V ...••.'. . .'Much of the latter referred, to ~■ the Blood and of which Dzung was Ta .member. ;.' This '■: society ,;iwas prominent in connection- with - last . siimmer's rebellion,--and • the evidence furnished by Dzung 's papers show that it is still working actively. Among the

documents".found.were a certificate., ,6f

irierity made out in Dzung's name, from - ttib Army Aeroplane./ Corps (this was irfuch' advertised in the rebellion, but never ,camo to anything), -itnd- .another

■ froin ; the^^udmintang^*l>esides pamphlets r jeii l -—the? Kuomintaag ; leader, whose

murder, it will be remeinbered, a year .&'& was-the spark thjat set the^rebellipn abdaze. ... . £}'■■■£,:■.■■:..■; . ■,-..$ , h'-J'- V-1'; !>;■' 1 Papers Seized jby Police; ' ~\;\

"\ : The whole one of the. xriost valuable finds "in the way of - iAharchist propaganda ; that the yjjolice- .: have yet made, \ and the evidence will be-.of great servicetO'the Chinese au-r , thorities, to! whom Dzung and his papers have been handed over. ~ ;. . ■'*Y Strange with what a stolidity a Chinaman will cling to any fa'ce-saving deyiee,' however palpably false.. Dzung appeared!, in the Mixed ,Cqurt with the' accomplice.'referred to above! Though \ minus both; 'a>rnsj' and confronted with all the damning evidence that-the"police' had he, stuck'to .his story, that he was merely making crackers to give to his pupils. . .. The pretence will serve him. as well as any other in the fate which • awaits him oil the execution ground at the Kiangnan Arsenal. ;, "