PIRATE & GUERRILLA
CHINESE WOMAN CAPTURED & SHOT AFTER DESERTING TO JAPANESE. REVENGE TAKEN BY FORMER COMRADES. SHANGHAI, August 9. Her former comrades captured and shot Miss Wang Behmei, who, with a friend, a Chinese guerrilla general, deserted to the Japanese, the general becoming a pacification leader under the Japanese Government at Nanking. Miss Wang Behmei originally was a pirate chief and thereafter a guerrilla leader, riding a charger and carrying two revolvers, at the head of a brigand band, and 1 becoming the most striking military figure at Pootung, but with the general mentioned she chang-’ ed sides when the Chinese abandoned Shanghai in November. Her former associates vowed revenge. She and the general faced a firing squad together.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1938, Page 4
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118PIRATE & GUERRILLA Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1938, Page 4
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