The Archive · 1939

Japanese Arrest Two Canadians

NEWS FROM THE INTERIOR — Charges of Espionage Made Against British Missionaries; Threats in Many Cities

Peiping, Aug. 9. [HE anti-British movement in North China has apparently been further intensified, Two Canadians and four Chinese have been arrested in Hsuchow in what is described in semi-offic Japanese reports as another case of alleged Britis The arrests are said to have been made by the Japanese garrison authorities, It is alleged that the adions organized an anti-Japanese "national salvation society" in church compounds under their control. They' are also accused of giving information in regard to the movement of Japanese forces to agents of the Chungking Government, In Peiping, the detention by the Japanese. gendarmes. of one of its Chinese employees has resulted in the entire Chinese stof of the British Travel Agency deserting,—apparently through fear of attempts being made to force them to leave, tis widely rumoured that Chinese servants of Britons are to leave by August 15, Very reliable sources declare that when the congregation of the Bap-Church at Taiyuanfu were arrested, the trucks in which they were carried off were manned by Japanese fas well as Chinese—Reuter,

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