Amoy, May 28.
The Consul-General for Japan came to Amoy yesterday in the Hongkong Maru which moored alongside one of the pontoons fronting Messrs, Butterfield & Swire godown. At 1 pin, with his staff and. former Japanese Consular police, he crossed to the Lingtow Jetty at Kulangsu. The Indian police officers of Kulangsu were on the jetty and surrounding the Consulate waiting for their arrival. Capt. Bass, chief of police, and Mr, Olkhosky remained at the Consulate to formally hand over the building which had been left in charge of the Municipal Council during their eight months' absence.
The Chief of the Japanese Consular Police shook hands with all the Indian officers on the jetty and asked in the course of conversation how many Formosans had been arrested in Kulangsu by the Chinese authorities, taken to Amoy and shot; and whether the chief of the Kulangsu detective department still was a resident on the island. The Indians in reply to both questions stated that they did net know. The head of the Kulangsu detective department left Kulangsu two weeks ago. He requested leave to retire, but his request was refused by the Chief of Police. Thereupon, he took "French leave" and departed no one knows how or to where. He probably had an inkling that Kulang-ssu would not be a healthy place for him to stay in when the Japanese came back to it. The first thing that was done after the arrival of the Consular-party was to connect the severed telephone cable to Amoy with the Consulate; the second to place machine guns on the road leading to the Consulate buildings,
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