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Show 200 MAIICHUKUa 'PLOTTERS' HELD TOKIO, March M (UP) Two hundred Manchukuaa officials, mer-chanta mer-chanta and prominent persona have been erreated and eome e( tham executed on a eharga af plotting to overthrow the government, tha Dome! News agency reported today from Halnklng, capital of tha Japa-neee-foetered etata. Tha dispatch said a Halnklng; official of-ficial announced the arrests after praaa ban en release of the news had been lifted. The date of the occurrence waa not mentioned, but It waa revealed that lnveetlgatloas ware begun in Antung province as far back aa last August Society Revealed It revealed the 'existence ef a Pelplng "national preservation society" so-ciety" there having connections with ths Pelplng government and objectives objec-tives both against Msnckukuo and the Japanese, the dispatch said. Ths dispatch declared that Sun Wen-fu, chief ef the educational department, and Ching Wen-ping, magistrate ef the city ef Huang-Jehnslen, Huang-Jehnslen, were among Wader of the plot. Japanese military authorities Joined In the Investigation and the arrests. Ths announcement did not reveal how many had been executed, merely saying that all were court-martialed, court-martialed, soms sentenced to death, others to prison and other acquitted. ac-quitted. Praaa Baa Lifts Dispatches from the trouble sons hed given no indication of auapi-cloa auapi-cloa against Manchukuo officials la connection with the increasing unreet sweeping the plains of northeastern north-eastern Asia, but ths press ban waa lifted with the roundup of the 300 functionaries. Ths war office earlier today announced an-nounced that 30 Japanese soldiers on duty In Manchukuo were killed In a two-day fight with 100 so-called , "bandits" terrorising the area. |