Iwo Britons are Detained by Chinese at Chapoo At 830 am. on July 3, 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 in' the. "rest house at "Chapoo, the "holiday ook" gone "from their faces, all hope of reaching their destination abandoned. The foreigners. in this unhappy position were Messrs. J. D. Adams, of the AP.C., and J. Hart of the Shanghai Electric Construction They were incarcerated by the Chapoo military authorities following, an accident which occurred at 8. am." On approaching Chapoo, Mr. Adams, who was driving in front in a Hudson Bight Sedan, saw a detach melt 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 amic of "Lu, aged eighteen, Lu walked right into the side of the car, and was alightly 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 arty 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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