Assault on "N.-C.D.N."
Reporter by Japanese Mr, Clarence E, Gauss, American Consul-General, filed a written protest yesterday with Mr, Shinrokuro Hidaka, Japanese Consul-General, over the assault made by an armed Japanese Gendarme on Mr. V. F. Meisling, American reporter on the "N-C.D.N." staff, in Hongkew on Manda; Mr. Meisling, who had left a hospital bed only a few days previously, was beaten in the chest and back by the Japanese soldier, who appeared suddenly from within the New Asia Hotel as the newspaper-man was about to take a photograph of the flag-bedecked entrance. The gen-dorine pushed Mr. Meisling into the hotel, where a Japanese civilian interceded in the latter's behalf and after speaking to the gen-dorine informed the reporter that there was no prohibition against taking the picture in question. Mr. Meisling took the picture and then reported the assault to the Municipal Police, the Gendarmerie Headquarters in the Bridge-House, and the office of the American Consul-General
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