Volunteer Chief's Family Also Here Having been interned for several weeks in the Soviet territory where they were forced to take refuge by. {the victorious Japanese troops, over 150 members of families of 'Kirin volunteers under the command of General Wang Teh-lin were brought Shanghai from the north by the China Merchants' s.s. Wuyang at] 3 p.m. on March 26, The party was composed of women and. children, including the family of Gen. Wang Tch-lin, and_was accompanied by a number of officers who served under Gen, Wang in the battles of Kirin during and after the Japanese occupation of Changehun.
'When the Wuyang arrived, the! China" Merchants' Kingleeyuan Wharf, where the vessel came alongside, was guarded by French Police land officers of Public Safety Bureau, Arrangements for the reception of [the refugees were in the hands of local Chinese charitable organise tions which had engaged a lodging house off Avenue Edward VIE_to ter the refugees after their val. Immediately after the vessel was berthed, the refugees were taken to the lodging house in motor trucks.
Most of the male refugees wore! typical fur head-gear which was lore than a necessity in the intense Jeold of north China, According to tone of them, they crossed the Soviet border after meeting defeat at the Soviet authorities.
Vinalvostok for China "Proper, they were over 1,000 in amber, but. the fzreat majority" of these. landed at HFengka and proceeded to. Tientsin
any several hundred to come te fla ater nether ite, leaving south This "number™ dwindled over. 150 when they left Tsingtao for Shanghat by the Woyang.
'A. representative of Gene Hreh-tin stationed in Shanghai
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