The Archive · 1938

Japanese Officers Arrest Suspects

Five Chinese Taken Off to Kung Dah Mill Two Japanese military officers, and a Japanese police sergeant from Bubbling Well Station, entered the Chinese—Y.M.C.A. Social Centre.

Robison Road, arrested five Chinese, and took them to the nearest Japanese military depot, at the Kung Dah Mill. Jessfield Road, on New Year's Day, it was learned yesterday, The arrests took place soon after one of. the bombing incidents, on that morning, when a missile was thrown into the compound of the Kiwa Cotton Mill. In making the arrests. it is understood, the Japanese declared that the five Chinese would be questioned as to the incident, and, if found to be implicated. would be punished according to Japanese military law. It could not be ascertained yesterday whether the five men had been released, or whether they had been found guilty of taking part in the incident, Meanwhile yesterday enquiries were still being pursued into the series of terrorist outrages which have recently. occurred in the Bettlement. Detectives from Bubbling Well Station were following up the incident on Monday, when a homemade incendiary bomb was hurled into the garden of Mr. S, Okamoto, Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, but no developments were reported, and no arrests made. Detectives from Louza Station were investigating the incident at Hankow Road, when iwo grenades were hurled at a party of Japanese troops and in Gordon Road and Pootoo Road districts enquiries were also being made into the bombing incidents which took place in those districts on New Year's Day. but no arrests had been made im connection with these attacks

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