Japanese Consular officials yestes day visited the farm to take deposltions of Chinvse employees and agrlcultural experts working there, who were alleged to have been tod by Chinese that they would be killed they continued to work for Japanese.
The Consular action was following a request for assistance ceived on Saturday from Mr, Eizo Shima, Japanese partner in the terri Ku En-fu, his Chinese partner, Mr 'Shima said, was arrested by' the Chinese authorities on Thursday, last week on charges of having violated a new law prescribing the death penalty for persons "secretly selling ational land to foreigners."
Mr. Shima, further alleged that the Chinese authorities were. attempting to drive him out of business by me terfering in, the transportation of foodstuffs, The farm covers approximately 250 acres—Dom
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