A Trumped Up Arrest—Brutal Behaviour of Japanese Gendarmes—Isolation in a Filthy Cell—
An Unspeakable Scandal By Our Harbin Correspondent Antung, July 50.
On July 11 the small foreign; community in the rapidly growing and prosperous town of Antung were thrown into a state of excitement on learning the news that the pioneer British merchant of this port, Mr, George L. Shaw, had been arrested by the Japanese! authorities. Antung lies on the' Chinese bank of the Yalu river that' separates Manchuria from Korea, on the opposite bank lies Shingishu, and it was here, in Korean territory, that the' Japanese gend-armoric effected Mr, Shaw's arrest.
The details are as follows. Mr. Shaw, who was expecting his wife and family back from Japan on the ith instant, took the south bound train to meet them a few stations, down from Antung; he forgot to take with him his passport, which must be shown at Shingishu, never theless the Japanese authorities Jet him proceed further by the same' train, he being well known to them and having explained the object of his travelling. Two or three' stations further on, the north and south bound trains met and Mr. Shaw returned by the former! together with his family. On arriving back at Shingishu, only two hours having elapsed, ' Japanese gendarmes boarded the train and requested Shaw to go and see their' chief at the station, the latter told him he would be detained, and notwithstanding protests on Shaw's part he was locked up in a filthy cell where he had to spend two nights, being treated like a criminal and kept practically without food. nobody being allowed to see him and he not being permitted to communicate with anybody,
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