The Archive · 1938

Students Hear Harangues

So to the mass meeting hundreds upon hundreds of primary and mid~ dle school students went. Chief Japanese Soldiers Arrest Civilians {rome un Own Commaronoenr Kulangsu, June 2.

'A. strict: censorship has been established ° over" the Post fice, Letters received today were opened and resealed, During the list few days Japanese 'oMleers accompanied by soldiers with bayonets fixed visited the refugee camps and arrested. sixteen people. 'One man T can vouch for, at least, was led away to the Japanese Consulate his hands handoulfed behind him and tied with a rope, This morning the. whole sixteen' were released, Soldiers entered a private house rented by an overseas Chinese snd British subject. They took away a man and a woman, These people have no idea why they were arrested except that. they owed money to a Formosan before the Formosans departed months ago. Such mote Tenders were in the habit of lanning. small sums to Indigent people, mostly iwkers, and charging an interest of 20" cents per day. These soldiers searched another private house and young man paying a call on the owner during the search was arrested, hobedy else in the house was taken away. Those three, the debtor and the unlucky visitor have not been released. Reports of bombing all day have been heard here coming from the northwest. Probably Chipbee or Tongan is being subjected to an aerial attack.

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