The Archive · 1939

Man and His Sons Held by Japanese

Vu Yuen Road Flat Said Rifled by Military Police Money, Bank Books Gone

Chinese business men—a ealthy real estate owner and his two elder schwere being held yester-Japanese Military Police held Road, it was ascertainthoritative sources, nine days of er they had been by the Japanese beea' e, it is alleged, they had in their possession two pistols, some ammunition an old soldier's uniform which had at one time been worn by a younger son at a Government military school.

In the dead of night, at 1 am. on January 4, a party of armed Japanese, including some uniformed men, made a forced entrance into the family home, House 125, Lane 361 Vu Yuen Road, in the large block of dwelling-houses. at the corner of Vu Yuen and Tifeng Roads which gained prominence, before the 1937 hostilities, when the S.M.C. authorities barricaded it for non-payment of Municipal rates.

This large block of modern flats is owned by Mr. Dzung Tsao-nan, aged about 60, who was carried off, with his two sons, by the Japanese Milita Police on January 4. The sons are Dzung Liang-hao, 35, and Dzung -ying, 23. All three were taken by the Japanese, and it is understood that they are still being held at 94 Jessfield Road.

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