The Archive · 1937

Woman Refugee's Story Peiping, July 3}

Bringing a tale of" horror and carnage, the frst Japanese wom® to. escape from Tungchow, wher mutinous members of the ' Chine Peace Preservation Corps massacred large portion of the Japanese colony of 300 pertens, arrived here to-day, she's Mrs, Masahiko Okamura, wife of a Japanese advisor to the Peace Preservation Corps, Disgulsed Chinese clothes, she trudged 20 miles. to Peiping across fields, company with Mrs, Sung Shaotsal, Wwite of a high official of the East opel Government, and the latter's children.

"Awakened by shouts in the streets at'? ofelock on Thursday morning, 'Mes, 'Okamura recounted, she arose to help her husband put on his uni form. As he was' about to leave, three Peace Preservation Corps men walked into the house and fred three shots at him, point blank, "As he fell at my feet," Mra. Okamura suld, "T saw red. T'jumped fon the Arst man and bit him on the farm, He hit me with the butt of his Fevoiver_and T fell unconscious,"

Her Chinese boy, the Japanese woman continued, revived her and Yok her {oa wood shed in the back where he hid her under a pile of, old newspapers. and Logs.

"As lay there, Peacg Preservation Corps men came. Into' the house Shouting 'Get. the Japanese.' These Aroups vonsacked the pockets of my husband taking his watch and his fountain pen."

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