Action would be taken by Japanese consular police, Japanese Settlement fence Corps, Japanese Gendarmerie and the Municipality of Shanghai to slop false reports that Chinese were being kidnapped. in Hongkew "and sent to Formosa, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday, The false reports originated with the publication in a Chinese language Paper in the Settlement that Mr. Li Chin-ken, 33, shop assistant of the Taishodo, 314 Woosung Road, was kidnapped by a gang, the paper said. Showing that the reports were false, Mr. Li was still working inthe Japanese store, the "Pairiku" stated.
The "Tairiku® charged that there woe a connection between the false reports and the activities of the underlings of Mr. Wu Kai-hsien, lead. er of an anti-Japanese group under the control of Chungking. post near by. As he showed signs Of resistance he was threatened with shooting. Half an hour later he was bundled' into 2 covered truck with about forty other able-bodied Chinese and driven to one of the eastern wharves, They were placed Jarge boat which was towed by a launch to the Pootung side, There they disembarked and were marched for a couple of hours until they reached a" camp, surrounded by. barbed wire and guarded by a small force of Japanese soldiers and a larger force of Chinese police. He estimated that there were fifty con ®!cripts in the camp before the ar~ rival of the fresh lot The following morning all the prisoners wore taken out to perform lotion work, evening they were given ly a were not paid a cent for their hard! work. After a week the ow prisoner some of his fellows succeeded escaping at night and they made a long trek finally reach of the Whany The who "had been kidnapped Yams Read managed to return to the Shanghai side of the river weakened ney. "THe is At a local hospital—south of the S00- chow Creek,
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