The aimeulties experienced by Chinese residents in the so-called denulitarized zone, which is now given the grandiose Utle of the Autonomous Region of Etstern Hopel, has been hinted at several times in the press, fut It has not always been possible to got hold of the actual facts and, particularly, "to secure for them 'Interest, therefore, attaches to an extremely' glaring example of the methods of the authorities in Hope. At Tangshan," which is nearly 100 fmilleg east of Tientsin, the Bank of China hag a branch, On Feb. this branch was suddenly visited by Japanese gendarmes who demanded That a representative of the bank should be Immediately sent to the Gendarmerie Headquarters for questioning. The bank made enquiry of th Toea! Chinese police to find out what was the" reason for this rather peremptory request, and It gendarmerie and were alleged to bear 8 chop advocating the boycott of Japanese goods and the severance of seonomie "relations between China and Japan and that for this antl= Japanese Mourish the Japenese Gendarmerie considered "the Bank of China's branch effec responsible,
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