The "N.-C.D.N." reporter had taken only one picture of the Chaoufoong Road dump, at 3.40 p.m. yesterday, when the two reservists in charge of the unloading came running over and started addressing him angrily in Japanese, pointing at the camera. He promptly produced his Japanese press pass and indicated with his foreing the Japanese characters relating to the use of cameras.
At this juncture the other foreigner, who had not taken a single picture of the dump, came over from the other side of East Seward Road and since he also was carrying a camera he too was subjected to a flow of excited language, with gestures. The "renin" who did most of the talking called over the Chinese foreman and several coolies, and the foreman, in pidgin English, informed the two foreigners that they must hand over their rolls of film to the Japanese. As the foreigners hesitated to do so, the attitude of the "renin" and the coolies grew menacing and they formed a semicircle about the foreigners and announced that they would be taken away in custody. By this time most of the coolies had joined the cordon about the foreigners.
The "N.-C.D.N."__ representative asked that he and his companion be allowed to go to the Wayside Police Station, but they were informed that they would be taken to a Japanese military post. There was no member of the Settlement Police, foreign Japanese, within sight.
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