Tientsin, June 25.
The release of Mr. G. A. Smith, after nine days in the hands of the Japanese, almost complete stoppage of the milk supply into the British Concession, and a parade of "White Russian "anti-Communist" volunteers in the ex-German Concession were the highlights of the 12th day of the Japanese blockade. The day, however, revealed a particularly atrocious searching case, involving a British married couple.
The vielims were Mr. D. Finlay, a native of Glasgow, and his German-born wife. The man was stripped to his singlet in full view of Chinese and foreign passers-by," while the woman was successively ordered by a woman searcher to take off her hat, blouse, skirt, petticoat and underwear—all in the presence of a Japanese male sentry. As they were Drofeeding yesterday afternoon to the Country Club, where Mrs. Finlay works as manageress, they were stopped at the barrier' at the south end of Race Course Road and made to line up in a queue.
After waiting for about an hour, during which time a number foreigners of cther nationalities were permitted to pass freely as were a number of Chinese, Mfr. and Mrs. hut, Finlay were admitted into the search
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