JAPANESE BRUTALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 172, 22 July 1940, Page 8

JAPANESE BRUTALITY.

American Journalist Beaten Up By Gunmen. OUTRAGE IN CHINA. SHANGHAI, July 21. Two gunmen entered the apartment of Mr. Hallett Abend, "New York Times" correspondent, beat him, and forced him to kneel, demanding: "Where are you hiding the anti-Japanese book you are writing?" Mr. Abend surrendered the only book he was writing, a biography of the late Frederick Townsend Ward, an American. The gunmen, who, Mr. Abend said, were Japanese, demanded: "Why do you send insulting telegrams about Major-General Miura?" The officer named is commander of the gendarmes. The attack occurred in an apartment in the Japanese-owned Broadway Mansions, Hongkew, from which Mr. Abend J was moving after recent molestations. United States officials have protested "vigorously." The British chairman of the municipal council, Mr. W. J. Keswick, has sent a note to the senior Consul-General, M. Poul Scheel, of Denmark, appealing for "an immediate meeting of the consular body, in which I urge all your colleagues to co-operate with the council to check the present terrible wave of political crime, whieh is destroying all confidence here and ruining the reputation of Shanghai throughout the world." .