The Archive · 1940

Chinese Pressmen Shanghai, Sept, 20

Colonel Hsieh Ching-yuan, ° commander of the "Doomed Battalion" interned in Singapore Road. which was the scene of disturbances recently Russian volunteers guarding the place were forced to open. fire of the internees, invited 10 Chinese newspapermen visit his camp yesterday afternoon, The colonel declared to the visitors that as a revolutionary army oticer hho would like to come to terms but not at the expense of dignity, not "mention any "terms for sellling the recent unhappy incident. He said that he would urge his men to focus their attention' on the development of industry on a small scale in his camp. The former Chinese soldiers are "being taught various kinds of handiwork. He took nests to see the tomb inside the camp in which the dead soldier was burled by his comrades,

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