The Archive · 1936

Japanese Woman Leaves Hainan Island

Evncuates With Family Because Of Anti-Nippon Feeling Mrs, Kimie Katsumata, wife of Mr. Yoshihisa Katsumata, one of, the few Japanese residents of Hainan Island, passed through Shanghai en Oct. 10 on her way to Japan with her two children aboard the N.Y.K. my, Tatsuta Maru, "Ar. Zensaku Katsumata, her father-in-law, wes the Arst to notify the Japanese authorities in' Hongkong and at Centon of the mob murder of Mz. Jyunzo_ Nakano, Japanese store-keeper, at Pakhoi on September 3.

She told Japanese reporters here that she was going to Japan because of the recrudescence of anti-Japanese feeling at Hoihow - following the murder of Mr, Nakano.

Neatly clad in a corduroy jacket and shorts, 27-year old Erle Malpas, English, is in Shanghel. "T'm just another globe trotter," he announced fon Oct. 15, and he has arrived in China on the last lap of a five-year tour of the world, in the course of which he has visited 22 countries Most of the 100,000 miles that he has covered have been on his bicycle, which he purchased from an aborigine in Darwin for ten shillings, The bicycle is reputed to be 33 years old.

'Malpas claims to have interviewed not a few of the world's leading personages, including Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Miss Gracie Fields, Herr Hider, and' Dr, Goebbels,

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