The Archive · 1928

Flag Hoisting Stopped

"Obviously," said he, "if the ative region beyond the Great Wall was under the effective control of been destroyed by dynamite, probably numbering 12 charges each of not more than eight pounds, which were pegged into the granite piers supporting the steel girders of the South Manchuria Railway viaduct.

He pointed out that the tragedy occurred on the seventeenth lunar month, when night vi was good.

Mr. Weale stated that he intecviewed a Chinese at a lumber-yard ess than 100 yards from the bridge, who stated that on the fatal night he saw figures moving about the bridge, who (said Mr. Weale) must have been seen by the Japanes-sentries.

"The crime," he declared, "was the work of bad men and corta' people in the Japanese Arms facilitated their work. There have long been in Japan organization" similar to the Serbian organizatio= which carried out the Sarajevo crime, for instance, the Black Dragon Society, which specializes in Chinese affairs and originated the Twenty-One Demands, ant which notoriously employs men the Soshi class such as were de~ sither ies from Mukden after the ported by the Japanese civil "Who Killed Our Father?"

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