Lives and Property of Non-Combatants Respected Assurance of adequate Chinese protection of the lives and property of Japanese non-combatants was made to-day by Mr, O. K. Yui, Mayor of the City Government.
In an official order issued to-day, Mr, Yui threatened serious punishment to those violating the warning. The lives and property of enemy nationals, who are not—participating) directly or indirectly in the hostilities, the order said, should be rigidly protected, The people were urged to display amply the traditional Chinese characteristic of abiding by law. The most serious punishment, the order stated, will be meted out to violators—Central News,
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