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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20, 1940
JAPANESE CHAIN GANGS IN SOUTH
CHAIN-GANGS, of some 20,000 Chinese, conscripted from Japanese “occupied" Canton, Nam Hoi, Shun Tak and Sun Wui, are being employed by the Japanese military to reconstruct the 75-mile highway and railway be- tween Nanning and Yamchow, according to a group of conscripts who escaped and arrived in the Colony on Saturday from Kwongchowwan.
ATTEMPT TO BOMB REFUGEE SHIP
London, To-day.
__The_men_related how in December they were conveyed in transports from Canton to Hoihow, on Hainan Island, and later to Lung Mun off the south- west coast of Kwangtung Province.
Together with a large number of others who were rounded up by the Japanese in different towns around Canton, they were forced to march to Yamchow where they were compelled to reconstruct the railway and high- way, which the Chinese troops dès- troyed before withdrawing, between Yamchow and Nanning.
A German aircraft which
Under constant surveillance of arm- attempted to bomb a steamer
ed Japanese guards, they worked day carrying over 700 refugees to and night at stretches of between 12 England from Belgium was and 16 hours. The food supplied was shot down in flames by anti-Poor and they had to sleep in the aircraft fire from the ship.
Many Clubbed To Death
"The story of attack and the bringing down of the raider which took place early Saturday evening, when the steamer was in the North Sea, was told yesterday when the refugees, the majority of whom were women and children, landed at a Channel port.
Two planes attacked the steamer and five bombs were dropped.
open.
They estimate the number of con- script labourers working on the two projects to be about 20,000.
Many were clubbed to death by the Japanese guards who freely used the butts of their rifles on the workers.
One night in March they escaped, and, after travelling a month over hills, mountains and rivers, they cross- All fortunately missed their mark.
ed the border into French territory The gun on the steamer fired many
where they were cared for by relief rounds and one of the bombers was seen to be hit when at about a thou-organisations and later sent to Kwong-
chowwwan. sand feet. The plane burst into flames and crashed into sea. The second machine then turned tail-British
Wireless.
Originally, there were about 50 in the group. The remainder stayed in Kwongchowwan while the group of 20 odd were sent to Hong Kong for repatriation back to their villages.
BELGIAN RED It is understood that the men have CROSS FUND
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Flying a kite from the roof of No, hardships Belgium is suffering as a 187, Apliu Street, Shardshuipo, a 13- result of the unprovoked German ag-year-old Chinese lad fell from *the gression.
top of the building yesterday morning A fund has been opened in Hong-and was seriously injured. kong, at the Banque Belge pour His skull was fractured 1'Etranger, (E.O.) under the name of
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