GREAT SUFFERINGS
IMPRISONED IN JAPAN SYDNEY WOMAN'S CHARGES TOKIO. May 9 Mrs. Gertrude Edwards, of Sydney, in a press interview, stated that she was arrested at Kagoshima on suspicion of espionage, and thrown into a miserable cell with male prisoners and subjected to humiliation, suffering from fright which aggravated her illness, and her belongings were ransacked. She was finally released, but was constantly annoyed by detectives, and was subsequently re-arrested at Shimonoseki. She then threatened to kill herself if she was imprisoned again, and she was released through the efforts of the British Consul. Mrs. Edwards said she spent a year purely sightseeing, and was mystified why she should he suspected. She was still haunted by the terrible treatment. Several other foreign visitors have recently been subjected to similar detention on suspicion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 9
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