104 Men Under Wang Teh-lin Arrive in 9s. Sever Several still donning the leather jackets with which the well-equipped Mukden soldiers were provided prior to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, a party of 102 Chinese ex: volunteers, under the command two officers, arrived in Shanghai by the s. Sever on Tuesday, ume 11, "from Vladivostok, whither they had been driven' after being defeated in Kirin by the Japanese-Manchoukuo combined forces, 'The s. Sever, which carried the Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet, Dr. W. W. Yen, and the famous Chinese' actor, Mr. Met "Lan-fang. from Shanghai to Siberia recently, arrived off Pootung early in the morning and the party of Chinese volunteers, who are now left in a destitute condition, were landed at the Customs Jetty.
Before the arrival of the as. Sever, local Chinese authorities had been informed by consular officials Siberia, so representatives from the and Woosung Garrison Commissioner's office, and the Shang hai Public Safety Bureau, were at the Customs Jetty when the ex-Kirin volunteers landed.
Some of them carrying hot water pols, others with umbrellas, but none having rifles or other. firearms, the ex-Kirin soldiers spent their tiMntime Ju the Customs shed until at 3 bin. two boats secured by the Public Safety Bureau came alongside - the Jelty. The ex-volunteers boarded hem, a roll-call was made, and. the rly taken ta the Nantao Bund, where they were landed nnd taken over by the Public Safety Bure authorities, "It was. stated that day that they "would be sent back to their respective native provinces, as some are from Honan, Chibli, ete, 'A. representative of the "North. China Herald" interviewed several of the ex-volunteers, who stated that they were formerly in the army. After the Mukden event, they were under the volunteer leader, Gen. Wang Teh-lin, and fought the com: bined forces of Japanese and Manchoukuo troops Yor several years Until ast year, when they were driven across the Manchoukuo border and entered Soviet territory, There they were disarmed and kept under surveillance in a place to the north of Vladivostok for almost a year, during which time they were provided with food by the Soviet authorities, "The men said they were not of a group of volunteers who, after leaving Manchuria, went to Siberia and tually proceeded to Sikiang Province.
It was learned that the return of these ex-volunteers from the Soviet had been made possible through the arrangements of Chinese consular of Gcials in Siberia,
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