The Archive · 1937

S. M. Police

Quick work of the S. M. Police has resulted in the release of Yuen Tsou-tsung, 13-year old son of Yuen Sai-nan, who was kidnapped by four men, one of whom was armed, in Hardoon Road, near Bubbling Well Road, at 8 a.m. last Monday, while he was en route to his school The kidnappers, before taking away the boy in a w a letter to a companied the boy deliver to his mester Taiyuan, Nov. 1l Rescued from the Baptist Missionary Society building cellar by Japanese troops, Dr. C. V. Bloom to-day charged Chinese troops with a series of outrages against foreign residents of Taiyuan.

Dr. Bloom is one of the eighteen foreigners who were found in Taiyuan following the occupation of the city by Japanese forces. Included were nine Britons, eight Swiss and one German. Other foreigners, believed to be in the city, have not yet been Locatea.

"On November 2," Dr. Bloom told After the arrest of a man on Wednesday afternoon, the police ascertained that the abducted boy was kept in a house in Lane No. 638, Sinza Road, and immediately conducted a raid on that place. When the officers entered the house, a member of the gang attempted to flee, but was brought down by a shot fired by a Chinese detective.

He was taken to the Police Hospital and detained. Later, the police arrested Zee Moh-ziang, once a chauffeur of the complainant, and in the police found a fake licence plate, which was used by the gang when the boy was kidnapped.

The three arrested persons were all charged with armed kidnapping in the First Special District Court yesterday and remanded till November 18. reporters sas he rubbed his wrists swollen from being tied with ropes for more than a week, "troops broke into our house. Our hands, including the children's, were hound with ropes behind our backs. We were thrown into the cellar while troops looted the premises. We were constantly under heavy guard "This is how Chinese treat doctors who have devoted their lives to the welfare of humanity," he concluded

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