Suspected of traitorous acts and attempted kidnapping in the Settlement, fourteen Chinese were ordered do-tained for one week by the First Spe-lal District Court on Oct, 27 on application of the police, The suspects were arrested on Tuesday when Ling, a former coolie, went to a Lungmen Road house and de~ manded from a factory proprietor $500 which Ling alleged he had been promised after the removal of a quantity of scrap brass from a Japanese plant in Ningwu Road to the Lungmen Road house, On his demand being rejected, Ling shouted the proprietor was a traitor. A Chinese police constable intervened and took three men to the police station for investigations. Ling was also detained.
At the same time, a group of nine persons mistook a' Chinese named Woo Vee-yah in Lungmen Rond for 'a Japanese spy and had him removed toa moter truck and driven away in the direction of the Chinese City. Vu Ya-ching Road, however, the truck was stopped by a police party who took the nine persons to, the police station for inguirles. It was alleged that the prisoners planned to remove the alleged Japanese serap brass from the Lungmen Road address, but they forcibly carried away Woo when the latter was mistaken for a apy.
Japan was not "virtually excluded" from the China market, as Dr. Ivur alleged, and (2) that Japan's trade with China in 1996 showed on vance on the figures for 1035, while this year's figures again showed an Jadvanee on those for 1936—until Jsome of Dr, Inur's fellow-countrymen decided upon a novel way of encouraging Chinese to buy more [Japanese goods by applying large doses of high explosive to the centres trade and industry. This may be the correct treatment from a psycho-Hogist's point of view, but as T have said, I know nothing about psycho-agy. All T do know is that to give Jo customer a crack on the head or Jo kick in the pants docs not, country, encourage him to call again, but here in the Orient everything 4s, s0 upside down that maybe Dr. Inu's Jcountrymen are right and I am wrong when it comes to encouraging Sino [Japanese economic ce-operation, But the manager of the Shang! branch of the Mitsubish! Bank had much the same idea as myself when sent out a circular early this year {through the Tokyo Chamber of Com-Jmetce, telling Japanese business-men that cconomle ce-operation was almost impossible because Japan had adopted the wrong tactics and re~ sorted to measures. which were not conducive to ce-operative effort, would like to know what Mr. [Selst Yoshida thinks of the policy Jsdopted since July to induce u better understanding by China of Japan's intentions Shanghai, Oct
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