The Archive · 1938

REFUGEES ARE EJECTED (QUIETLY

Several hundred refugees were rejected by the S. M. Police on Mar. 11 from the Amoy Road Gaol compound because the space was needed by the Municipal Couneit for storage purposes, The. small huts were torn doim and the refugees sid their belongings were transported to another compound behind the Mixed Court building. The riot van was fon hand to take care of any, pose Sibte outbreak, but the removal was accomplished quietly. The refugees fat the Amoy Road Gaol are being transferred in. gradual stages, half of them being now gone. "Another quarter of the original population at this "camp" will be moved next week A Minister, a novelist, a patriotic woman and salvage workers were included in the miscellaneous. human fargo brought here on Sunday by the Nagasaki Maru, the "Shanghat Nippo" reported on March 7, Heading the passenger lst was Mr, Masayuki Tani, newly-appointed Minister-at-large. The novelist was Mr, Karoku Miyaji, who came to

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