 On 27 June 1931, the members of the party were arrested by troops loyal to Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang under the command of Kuan Yuheng, Commander of the Third Regiment of the Chinese Reclamation Army in Manchuria, outside Taonan, in a place called Suokungfu.According to the Chinese, Nakamura was armed and carried patent medicines, which included narcotic drugs for non-medical purposes.He and his assistants were taken to Solun, where they were summarily executed on July 1 and their bodies immediately cremated to conceal evidence of the deed.