The Archive · 1932

SOVIET PRISONERS' COMPLAINT Alleged Il-treatment in Manchukuo Gaols

Harbin, Aug. 16.

The Soviet authorities desire to investigate the conditions of "the imprisonment of 29 Communist prisoners, alleged to be terrons who were conveyed from Harbin 0 Changehun on August It is rumoured here that. the prisoners are. dissatisfied. with thole treatment and are on hunger-strike, the Manchukuo authorities sate that the report. is untrue and that auditions in the prison are ideal.—Reuter, fiom six hundred li away died the lather day as he crossed. the river near' Hagiyuan, and a fellow Chin-fosse passenger with a heart had him properly. encoffined, and. hunted up those who" could notify relatives. Phe two harbour-pools at" Pengpu, with little circulation of the. water, have come badly "infected, and many deaths occur daily among the oat" population, "Flood relief work along the Huai River will be practically over by the lend of this month. Some 60,000 men fare still at work, though they are king Me Goat Senate he Me: [mission hospitals The in Consul from: Chur ly, among children. "are doing a {hours during the heat of the day: sensible enough to rest five or six king, Mr. Georg Scheffler has been Splendid work, resulting in the [Some Worksat night to. advantage, ind took" the foppecteniee at [saving of Mundreds and hundreds b¢|Tho thermometer" as been. re: toliives, but not a case in a hundred {matkably stationary, the range ist mountain resorts, inelod-Ipoes' or can go to a hospital: The [being' from 98 to 108 in the shade works the Green Stour: [Eovernment, department of "health, [all day, with a drop of "but four works, the Green Moun- Working with the Flood Relief Com: degrees at night. Pvostration, from her"

he"soun eanenaen [ain fe ding pressed especially by the latter lAlas, that the public. does not re: [long-delayed rainy season has, nov Hew "of inoculations. the workmen, ut it Ts hoped the wan ins hue qu oman anon the, time ofthe Yellow 'Emperor continued care' are' necssonry" vs [the the time ofthe han his teacher found thie famous prevent infection! A messenger limited are Yellow Emperor leon tinued care os farmers: farmed has nee cate much Toss over rather spot for study and was later followed the Emperor himself, Now the most beautiful temples of West [China are here, and they are maintained in a most worthy manner, many as 300 pilgrims and tourists finding accommoda:

Later Philippines tour of China, remarkable man at the age of 62 who has left his practice to his ison in the Philippines after thirty. years of arduous medical work, and is, as he phrases it, "vagabonding." He too visited the Cave of the Heavenly Teacher and neighbouring mountains and temples including the famous Fu Lung Kwan and Er Wang "Mise, the memorials to the son tion project for the Chengtu Plain In his train followed three German teachers from Peking, Mr. and [Mrs. Sachlowski- and Miss Lucie Wilke. The former proved an inftrepid hunter and in fgctting some wild The ladies visited the mountains and temples /and proved exceptionally well versed in Chinese lore. They proceeded to Motint Omei to make Jauests there. Many trips have been made to, the Jin Ding Kean Yin's Lamps of Mercy.

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