Probably a little tired of printing endless stories of political intrigue, the editor of the "Shanghai Commercial Daily News" on Monday regaled his readers with the following news item:
"A Japanese girl, 15 years of age, was recently arrested at Osaka on a charge of pocket picking. Upon being interrogated by the police, she said her name was Tome Ike and that when she was nine years of age she was kidnapped, packed in a box, and carried off to Shanghai, where she was put to work in a certain pills factory. There were 200 women employed here and the practice was, when one reached 17 years of age, to string her up, introduce tubes into her nostrils and extract blood. At 20 years of age, she went through the process of having her liver removed, while alive, more blood being thus obtained, for use in the manufacture of pills." 7 This interesting young person concluded with the statement that, at the time of her arrest, she was engaged with two Chinese in kidnapping girls to send to Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.