The Archive · 1940

Foreign' Woman Manhandled

Japanese Uses Pistol Butt to Injure Miss Cetitia Haas

With bruises on her arms and legs and a serious injury to an eye, presumably caused by the butt of a pistol with which she was struck during her four-hour captivity, Miss Cecilia Haas, Czechoslovakian, was nursing her wounds in her Embankment Building apartment last night and was unable to speak to a "North-China Daily News" reporter.

Investigations revealed that Miss Haas, who is connected with the catering department of Jewish refugees living at the Embankment Building, was standing on Boone Road near the Hongkew Market at about 11.15 am. yesterday when a car, licence No. 4607, drove up to her, a Japanese ordered her to sit down in the reay, and the vehicle finally drove off in the direction of Yangtszepoo. Shrieking and attempting to free herself, Miss Haas was seen being finally overpowered by the Japanese and a foreigner who were sitting on either side of her while a Chinese chauffeur was driving.

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