MANCHURIAN UNREST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 2

MANCHURIAN UNREST

OFFICIAL EVICTED A British officer of the Chinese maritime customs service, Mr. A. G. Wallas, arrived at Auckland by the Aoraaigi on Monday with Mrs. Wallas, on a holiday visit to New Zealand. Mr. Wallas had the experience recently of being put out of his customs bouse a.t Lungchintsun, in Manchuria, by Chinese officials acting under orders from the Japanese who had occupied the region. Previously he had had three visits from an armed guard, and tho actual eviction was carried out in the presence of a party of 15 Chinese police under an officer with a revolver in Lis hand. lie was not compelled to leave tho town, but remained there for five weeks. Ho then went to Shanghai, where lie was granted 18 months’ furlough that was due to him. In view of his position under the Chinese Government Mr. Wallas did not ■ wish to comment on the Manchurian situation, except to say that in his part of the country there had not been any unrest or disorders before the Japanese occupation. However, the unsettled conditions thereafter had encouraged banditry, particularly l>y Koreans, leading to the loss of a good many lives.