The Archive · 1938

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24 Aeroplanes and 4 Warships OW a Japan soldier went on a drunken spree in the Hung-

Claimed Destroyed jao district and, being unable to obtain the women he demanded, shot and Killed three old Chinese women, shot and wounded another old man. and either shot or bayonetted four men, was revealed yesterday by a Briton who, happening to hear of the affair while her was out west of the railway, conducted an exhaustive investigation on the spot.

In a second incident, a Chinese employee of a British firm was shot and badly wounded when, it is alleged, he was unable to give two intoxicated Japanese soldiers any money. The "North-

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