After serving a warning early this year in March that the premises of the Chinese Ratepayers Association at 59 Hongkong Road would be taken over by them, the Nanking regime put their words into action yesterday morning at 11 o'clock when a group of their men broke into the premises and changed the lock on the door.
The headquarters of the Association, of which the principal members had fled to Chungking, was in Room 308 of the building. The visiting party, said to include several Japanese,' broke into this room by breaking a window on the outside of the building and climbing through from an adjoining room.
They contented themselves with changing the lock of the door and look the new keys away with them.
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