The Archive · 1928

No Seven Storeyed Factory

Yung Teh Alleyway was located by a representative of the "North-China Daily News" only after considerable difficulty, during which the police were applied to in vain.

I "Li" situated off Route thin a stone's throw of the junction of that road with Route Pere Robert. House No. 4 is direct. ly. fienting the alley, and is a two-storeyed bull ing of grey brick, the width of a small room. The ground floor was occupied by two Chinese women of coolie class, who were cooking. y|a meal. Several children were feeding from bowls and scattered over the mud surface of the room, Our representative was informed that a room of similar size was upstairs, but he was not allowed to: nvestigate personally. The house consist ed of these two rooms only and was extremely dirty and unkempt.

To the right of the lintel was ound a piece of red paper on which was written, printed, in Chinese Christians." The circular re "Dearly beloved Christians, do woe to be excused from see: [characters "Yun Teh Engineering

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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