REVOLVER POINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 282, 28 November 1932, Page 5

REVOLVER POINT.

OFFICIAL DEPOSED. EXPERIENCE IN MANCHURIA. To be put out of officc at the point of a revolver was the experience of Mr. A. G. Wallas, a Britisher in 'the employ of the Chinuse Government, who arrived at Auckland by the R.M.m.s. Aorangi from Vancouver this morning. Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Wallas, who is on eighteen months' furlough, is on a holiday visit to New Zealand. Until recently Mr. Wallas was officer in charge of the Chinese Maritime Customs office at Lungchingtsun, in Manchuria.

"Manchuria was not unsettled until the Japanese cam© in about a year ago, but it is very much that way now," lie said. "Bandits, mostly Koreans, have taken advantage of the unrest, and killings are frequent." In Lungchingtsun, said Mr. Wallas, things had been comparatively quiet. He himself had been put out of office by Chinese, acting under Japanese orders. There had been no violence, but fifteen Chinese police had been present to see that the orders were carried out, and the officer in charge had a revolver in his hand. After being put out of office Mr. Wallas remained in Lungschingtsun for five weeks before going to Shanghai, where he was granted his furlough. "I had three visits from an armed guard before I was actually put out," he said.