GREAT INSECURITY
CONDITIONS IN HARBIN
ATTEMPTS AT KIDNAPPING
(British Official Wireless.) Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. C. Questioned in the House of Commons regiarding conditions at Harbin, Captain A. Eden said a state of great insecurity existed there. Owing to the activities of bandits it is unsafe for foreign residents to go outside the. city, and attempts at kidnapping had been made even in Harbin itself. ’The British Consul-General advised the evacuation of women and children, and several had left. He was also assisting British firms to obtain armed guards for the protection of life and property. The consular body at Harbin had represented to local authorities the urgent necessity for strengthening and improving the police force, and in response to the request of the British Ambassador at Tokio, the Japanese Government had promised to use his influence with the Manchurian authorities.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 7
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