At 630 yesterday morning, a merry party consisting of two Shanghai Britons with their wives and children set off in two cars for a summer holiday in Mokanshan. By 9 a.m, the whole party was under armed guard in the rest house at*Chapoo, the "holiday look" gone from their faces, all hope of reaching their destination abandoned. The foreigners in this unhappy position were Messrs, J. D. Adams, of the A.P.C., and J. Hatt of the Shanghai Electric Construction Ca, They were incarcerated by the Chapoo military authorities following an accident which occurred at 845 am. On approaching Chapoo, Mr. Adams, who was driving in front in a Hudson Eight Sedan, saw a detachment of soldiers ahead. He applied his brakes, and all of the detachment except one hopped out of the. way.
The one unfortunate who was the cense of the whole incident was a youthful soldier from Honan by the hame of Lu, aged eighteen. Lu walked right into the side of the car, and was slightly injured. Mr. Adams took him to the\Chapoo hospital, where the soldier was detained. He was then preparing to drive on again when he was approached by a small party of soldiers, who placed him and his family under arrest. For no apparent reason, Mr. Hart, who had nothing whatever to do with the accident and was following in a hire car, was also placed under arrest together with his family. The whole party were then marched off to the Rest House, and placed under an armed guard.
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