'A "North-China Daily News" detivery coolie arrived breathlessly at the "N=C.D.N-" office shortly after 12 a.m.
Feb. 10, and announced, between uilpe that he had been "captured" by {party of Japanese troops while delivering copies of the paper in the Hongkew District, and kept by them for over an hour. The coolie, when auistioned as to the reason for his Felurning to the office more than ai hour late, said: that while he was cycling along Whashing: Road, near Yulin Road, at about 815 am. three of four Japanese soldiers stopped him, ordered him off his bicycle, and gave him bundles of uniforms and blankets, to which, they told him, they wanted carried {o Kiangwan Road, near the Rifle Range.
'The cogue, who had only disposed of one half of the copies of the newspaper which he was responsible for Gelivering, had no alternative but to strap the soldiers' bundles on to his bicycle, and set off with them towards their billets. When he got as far.as Scott Road, he was told that his sex-would no longer be required, The soldiers evidently not wishing him to find out where they were billetted. The coolie sot about dis tributing the remainder of his quota of newspapers, which were, of course, Gelivered late.
The coolie's "beat" takes him to Yulin Road, Pingliang Road, Yangtszepoo Road, MeGregor Road, Broadway, and other parts of the Hongkew
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