The remaining eight hostages taken by train bandits in what became known as the Linceng Outrage were freed. The payment of ransom by Shanghai mobster Du Yuesheng to Sun Meiyao of the Shandong Outlaws resulted in the final freedom of what originally had been 300 such hostages.
Du Yuesheng, who controlled the Shanghai opium trade, would become a significant supporter of Chiang Kai Shek, and has been honored with a memorial in Taiwan, where he died.
Sun Meiyao would be executed by the Chinese Army in December.
On the same day, Chinese general Feng Yuxiang issued an ultimatum to Chinese President Li Yuanhong to resign. He himself would go on to briefly lead the country, and then support the Nationalist as well, before becoming, in later years, a critic of it. While a Christian, he was comfortable with the Communist regime and was honored by it when he died in 1953.
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