Hongkong, Jan. 25.
A report that a movement is afoot to release all prisoners in the Weihaiwei gaol because the authorities lack money to feed them has been received here.
Mr. Sung Minz-yao, formerly Distri¢ Administrator of Weihaiwei, is at present in Hongkong, having arrived here last week in the s. Hunan.
He stated that when he left Weihaiwei there was a feeling of dissatisfaction among the Peace Preservation Corps, and it was feared that looting might develop. As a precautionary measure. a party of sailors was landed daily from H.M.S Sandwich, but was withdrawn to the ship every night.—
A report of the employment of Russian truck drivers by the Japan-Army was emphatically denied last night by an Army spokesman The report of an attack on a Japanese troop lorry, driven by a Russian chauffeur, by a Chinese guerilla unit near Soochow was dismissed by the Japanese officer as "laughable."
The only Russians driving trucks in the vicinity of Shanghai, he said, are a few men employed by Japanese firms supplying Army canteens. None of these Russians has as yet had his eyes "gouged out with a sharp inthe Japanese officer added.
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