An Indian watchman was flung rather roughly against a wall and then pushed into a room under armed guard when twenty Japanese uniformed soldiers, entered premises 3t Lane 235 Yuenfong Road, British owned property, and removed a large collection of blackwood furniture yesterday, The houses are. all owned by Mes Burkill & Sons British merchants and property owners of 20 Canton Road.
They are near Wayside, just ai Seward Road, and not far, in fact, from the Lester Schoo! and Institute of Technical Education; they were being looked after by one Daloh Singh, watchman employed by Burkill & Sons, Shortly after noon yesterday, twenty Japanese soldi drove up in a motor lorry and entered the lane, he later reported.
The watchman, who protested but offered no resistance, was roughly flung back st a wall and later taken into one of the rooms, where an armed soldier kept watch ove him. Meanwhile, the other members of the party were going through the various hou: and dragging out a large quantity of blackwood furniture which they proceeded to place in the motor lorry. They then drove off to an unknown destination, while the Sikh watchman quickly reported the matter to the police and to his employers. It is understood that the blackwood furniture was the property of Chinese tenants of Burkill & Sons
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