BRUTAL TREATMENT.
INDIAN MERCHANT IN JAPANESE HANDS ARREST CONTRAVENES BRITISH RIGHTS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 14. Newspapers l comment- on evidence which has reached London from Manchuria of the brutal treatment of an Indian merchant and his family after their arrest at Hsinking on June 17 by Japanese authorities in contravention of British extra-territorial rights It was not until June 27 that the British Vice-Consul at Mukden was able to see the arrested man, and his ill-treatment, the Vice-Consul learned, was renewed subsequently during •hi,s controlled confinement until tho prisoners, against whom tho Japanese authorities, .it appeared, did not now propose to bring any charges, were finally handed over to the British Consul-General. , Medical examination at the consulate confirmed the depositions cf the arrested merchant that lie had been subjected to “water” and his wife had been beaten across her breasts; The case was brought to the attention of the Japanese Government at the beginning of July by the British Ambassador at Tok o, and it. is. understood, that further representations are under consideration in London ■?
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12914, 16 July 1936, Page 5
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