KNIFE AND FIRING SQUAD WORK HARD IN SHANGHAI CITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17991, 30 October 1926, Page 2

KNIFE AND FIRING SQUAD WORK HARD IN SHANGHAI CITY.

HORRORS OF FRENCH REVOLUTION RECALLED. EXECUTIONER’S BLADE RED DAY AND NIGHT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and, N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 30. 10.30 a.m.) PEKIN, October 29. With heads falling under the ©xeeutioners.s knife daily, suspected Cantonese agents marching shackled through the streets to the native tribunal, and doxens guilty of acts of treason, facing firing squads, Shanghai native districts recall the terrorisms of the French Revolution. Chinese soldiery and police are unceasingly scouring the territory adjoining the Foreign Concessions, and hardlv a day passes without dozens of suspteced Kuomintung spies being executed. By day and night military patrols force entry into Chinese homes, and drag suspects to the military court. After a brief trial they are executed, or released according to the ability of the prisoners to bribe the officials. Many houses revealed Kuomintung dags, pistols, bombs and Bolshevik literature, frequently causing the beheading of the occupants immediately without trial. lieads are stuck on the telegraph posts. The principal of Nanchang University-. one of the leading colleges of China, was executed yesterday owing to his supposed encouragement of recruits for the Bilitary Academy of Canton.