A formal protest will be lodged by the British authorities with the Japanesb autho during the course of the next few days in connection with the arrest, stabbing and beating of Mr. E. S. Wilkinson, local British accountant, naturalist and writer, in the Hungjao area on Friday. Mr. Wilkinson, it will be alled, was kept in custody at rious military outposts for about eleven hours before he was allowed home, and in an exclusive interview th the "North-China Daily Mem" yesterday ated his experien after he had run afoul of Japanese soldier!
in Keswick Road while on one c his usual nature study jaunt Verbal protests td the Japanese antlid es were made on Friday itself the first fiotification of Wilk a's detention reaching irish consular authorities through Shanghai Municipal Police, who turn had been notified by Mr.
Millington of what he had seen.
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