Foreigner and Chinese Held by Miller Road Two employees of the "North-China Dally News." 9 foreign reporter and Chinese photographer, were detained at the Japanese Landing Party temporary post at 83 Miller Road for about three-quarters of an hour fon the afternoon of October I. ecauso thos attempted to" obtain pictures of the barbed-wire entanglement erected at the me ter section of Miller and. Minghong Roads, near the Hongkew Police Station. The two had made a tour of Chapel and Hongkew, gotting news pictures, and stopped their car in Minghong Road at 4 o'clock.
The reporter, Mr, V. ¥, Meisting, got out with the photographer" and instructed the latter to take a ple ure of the barrier, about which several members of the Landing Party were standing. No sooner had two views been snapped, however, than the marines, holding'their rifles and bayonets at a menacing angle, approached the two men and attempted to snatch the camera' from the Chin-ce, His companion objected and poke in English to the officers who Accompanied the marines. They did not understand and insisted that the Chinese, with his camera, be taken to the military boston the comer.
As the marines seized the arm of the Chinese and started {o.pull him towards the entrance to the post the foreigner accompanied him, hav: ing meanwhile taken possession of the holder containing the films used {in Minghong Road and elsewhere that afternoon. Inside the post, the two men were Informed they would be questioned by an emeer attached the staff ofice of the Naval Landing Party, who had been summoned by rallitary {elephone. Mr, Meisiing. was Permitied to use the ordinary. tele-hone and notified the "North-chin Dally News" ofthe and, subsequently, the 'Municipal Police' at Hongkew Station about what had transpired, Me was unable to get a satisfactory answer from anyone present whether he was under arrest and he made no attempt to force the Issue. 'The room was full of officers and men, all heavily armed, as well as a few Japanese civilians' attached to the transport office, 'The arrival of the stair officer and police from Hongkew Station resulted inn consultation, with the' ald of a police interpreter, and. Mr. Melsling was informed thai the Naval Landing Party wished to interrogate him at their Headquarters in Kiangwan Road und that the films in' the holder must be developed and examined by the Landing Patty off dals. He agreed and went to Kiang wan' Road in a police car, accom= panied by a Japanese superintendent, 2 Japanese detective, and a foreign detective. In another ear were sev eral emeers. of ihe Lansing Party and Consular Police. "The Chinese jotographer was allowed to return the "North-China Dally News" office, after hie had given his name, exe, and address to the Japanese At the Landing Parly Barracks, Mr, Melsling was questioned briefly by Lieut-Comd, Tucano, staff ofter, and told that the films would be ex: objec-igh the police at Hongkew Siation. He was Ellowed to leave at $08 p.m. having been under det hour. "He went to Hongkew. Station and statement (0 a foreign detective. hour later the holder andthe Aims were returned with the message that a third film had been found objection: ble and hence had been confiscated. The two films returned were ab: solutely black" and no prints could be made from them.
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