Shanghai, May 14.
Mr. E, S, Wilkinson, prominent] British accountant, "naturalist and writer, was arrested, stabbed in the back and beaten by Japanese sentries fon the Western perimeter. yesterday morning and kept in custody at various Japanese military posts for approximately eleven hours before he was allowed to go home. It is understood that the attack on his person was nep made until, on questioning. Mr, Wilkinson revealed that he was, British.
'A resident of China for more then, thirty" years, Mr, Wilkinson is an authority on' Shanghai birds ana the author of "A Country Diary" in the "North-China Daily News." He is wont to take carly morning walks in the Hungjao area, with a pair. of fold-glasses, to study nature. He had started' on such a jaunt yesterday morning when he tan afoul, of Japanese soldiers in Keswick Roac The reason which the Japanese allege for his arrest was that he crossed the Japanese barbed-wire line in the vicinity of Hungjao Road. This, Mr. Wilkinson says, he did not do, In denying emphatically the Japan ese statement that he "jumped over a Japanese military barrier." Mr. Wilkinson last night gave an account of the events thay led up to the actual assault on his person and what transpired after he was taken away from. the Hungjao Road barrier post of the Japanese Army. He had parked his motor-car at the intersection of Keswick and Great Western Roads shortly before 7 am,
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