INDIANS TORTURED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 15 July 1936, Page 9

INDIANS TORTURED

ARRESTED BY JAPANESE. NO CHARGE TO BE LAID. INCIDENT IN MANCHURIA. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) Received July 15, 12.20 p.m. LONDON, July 14. The newspapers comment on evidence which has reached London from Alanchuria of the brutal ill-treatment accorded an Indian merchant and his family after their arrest at llsiiiking. on June 17, by the Japanese authorities in contravention oi the British ex-, traterrilorial rights. It was not until June 27 that tlie British Vice-Consul at Mukden was able to see the arrested man, and the tortures of which he then learned were renewed .subsequently during the continued confinement until the prisoners, against whom the Jajiane.se authorities, it appears, do not now propose to bring any charge, were finally handed over to the British Con-sul-General. A medical examination at the Consulate confirmed the depositions o( the arrested merchant. He had been subjected to a “water” treatment and bis wife had been beaten across tlm breasts. The case was brought to the attention of the Japanese Government at the beginning of July by the British Ambassador to Tokio and it- is understood further representations are under consideration in London.