Explaining the recent acid throwing at Wuchang, Dr. Roots made a statement as follows: "We had about 180 refugees in our mission compound and the Japanese loaded 40 of them into trucks and took them to their own camp, We had observed that they were being badly treated, some of the women being raped. Sometime later the Japanese came back and attempted to lake another party during which some more women were. ilstreated and so T attempted to Intervene. After arguing with the officers we persuade fed them to leave and as they were doing so two soldiers disgraced the 'American flag on the wall, hoping that T would get angry. AS nothing happened they picked "up a carbolic eid spray qun and turned it into my] face. 'Then they left. Apart. from stinging the acid did' little damage and I suffered very few ill-effects, being more concerned about the treatment of the refugees."
The Rev. Leslie Fairfield, Jaterview, told the "North-China Daily News" that the situation in Hankow and Anking, where he was stationed, had improved considerably. One-third of the population had gone Joack to Hankow the asserted, but no [business was being done and the food] supply question was rather serious. The Japanese stores in the port were No Yangtze Mouth Fortifications Shanghai, Dec. 7.
Questioned regarding the despatch, published in yesterday's "North-China Daily News," reproducing information printed in the London "Dally Herald," that the Japanese were constructing forts at the mouth of the Yangtze "to maintain control of the Yangtze and its tributaries," the naval spokesman emphatically denied that any such fortifica tions were being built. The army spokesman associated himself with this denial. selling their goods to the army, he added, and as there were between' two and five thousand soldiers in the city they were doing a brisk trade.
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