Confiscated Diaries of a Journalist Returned Peiping, Oct. 9.
Mr. Gerald Samson, the British Journalist who was arrested in Tokyo during the February uprising and held prisoner for seventeen. days ithout any charge being preferred Inst him and without being tried, has just received from Tokyo his personal diaries: which were seized by the police at the time of his arrest. Those diaries were obtained by the British Embassy in Tokyo after repeated representations and five just been handed to Mr. Samson by the British Embassy in Peiping.
Mr. Samson states that he feels a deep gratitude towards the British Ambassador in Japan, Sir Robert Clive, for his persistent efforts to obfain the return of the documents. The Japanese authorities, he adds, have offered no explanation for His arrest, Imprisonment, or the im-Pounding of the diaries, nor any apology oF compensation. Mr. Samson says he will continue to press for an explanation, apology, and compensation, if only in the hope of preventing, in future, some similar' inident befatling another foreigner in jepan.
Mr." Samson has been informed that the Tokyo police made complete copies of the diaries while they were in their possession from the middle of February last until late in Seplember.—Reuter.
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