Property Stolen by Party of Japanese Troops Helplessly last Sunday a Chinese gardener in the employ of a well-known American resident in Shanghai watched his belongings being carried away by a party of Japanese soldiers, He was unable to lift a finger to prevent his property from being stolen, and three foreigners to whom he appealed for help were just too late to be of any use, The incident occurred at 10 am, last Sunday, when the gardener was working in his master's garden on Macleod Road. He was informed that Japanese soldiers were taking away his belongings from a Chinese house in a village about 200 distant, and about 75 yari 1 Macleod Road itself, On arriving at his house, the gardener found several Japanese soldiers, armed with rifles, packing up his clothes, bedding, shoes, etc, and getting ready to depart, On protesting, the gardener was quickly made to realize that it was not worth his while, to n double. The soldiers. then took the clothes and bedding from two other houses nearby, and went off up Macleod Road towards Rubicon Road, and from there north towards the Soochow Creek.
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