The Archive · 1941

Japanese Gendarmes Arrest Bank of China Employees

Quarters for Single Clerks in Jessfield Road

Raided; Believed to Be a Retaliatory Step CHEVED to be an act of retaliation for terroristic activities directed at members of the Nanking-sponsored Central Reserve Bank, a mass arrest of more than 100 employees of the Bank of China was effected by Japanese gendarmes at about 12.30 a.m. yesterday when they raided the quarters for unmarried clerks of the Chungking bank and took them to their headquarters at 94

Jessfield Road.

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