The Archive · 1940

Col. Hsieh Receives Chinese Pressmen Ready to Come to Terms Without Loss of Dignity

Colonel Hsieh Ching-yuan, commander of the "Doomed Battalion" interned in Singapore Road. which was the scene of disturbances recently when Russian volunteers guarding the place were forced to open fire killing one of the internees, invited more than 10 Chinese newspapermen to visit his camp yesterday afternoon.

The colonel declared to the visitors that as a revolutionary army officer he would like to come to terms but jot at the expense of dignity, He not mention any terms for settling the recent unhappy incident. He said that he would urge his men to focus their attention on the development of industry on a small scale in his camp. The former Chinese soldiers are being taught various kinds of handiwork. He took his guests to see the tomb inside the camp in which the dead soldier was buried by his comrades,

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