Young and attractive, one Miss Niu Shu-chen to-day serves as one of the seven assistants to the newly appointed "Mayor" of Huchow, a war-searred town south of Lake Tai, the "Shanghai United News" reported yesterday.
On November 26, the daily said, Japanese gendarmes, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Katsushichi Uezuna and Capt, Ranjo Fujino, entered the once prosperous town, The sight that greeted the eyes of the force, the journal reported, was not cheerful. The streets were deerred. All doors and windows were securely barred, At night, the town was shrouded in complete darkness. as the power plant was put out of commission, Soon, the gendarmes ran across Miss Niu.
She told the Japanese she was 27 years of age, and that until six years ago she served with the Chinese Eastern Rai in Manchuria.
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