Amoy, May 28.
'The Consul-General for Japan' came to Amoy yesterday in the Hongkong Maru which moored along~ cide one. of the pantoons. fronting Messrs, Butterfield & Swire godown AULT pam, with his stof and former! Japanese Consular police, he crossed to the Linglow Jetty at Kulangsu. Phe Indian police oflcers of Kulangsu were on the jetty and surrounding the Consulate wai for their arrival. Capt. Bass, chief of police, and Mr, Olkhosky remained at the Consulate to formally hand over the Duilding which had" been eft charge of the Municipal Council dut-Ing their eight months' absence.
'The Chief of the Japanese Consular Police shook hands with all the Indian officers on' the jetty and asked in the course of conversation how many] Formosans had been arrested in Kulangsu by the Chinese authorities, token to Amoy and shot; and whether the chief of the Kulangsu detective department still was a resident on the island, The Indians in reply to oth questions stated that they" did net know. The head of the Kulangsu detective department left Kulangsu two weeks ago. He requested leave! to retire. but his request was refused by the Chief of Police. Thereupon. he took "French leave" and departed one knows how or to where. probably had an inkling that Kulang-would not be a healthy place for him to slay in when the Japanese come back to it. The frst thing that was done after tie arrival of the Con~ ular party was {0 connect the sover-tet telephone cable to Amoy with the Consulate; the second to place:
machine guns on the road leading to the Consulate buildings,
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