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KIDNAPPED BY PIRATES.
A Story from Pakhoi. A Pakhoi correspondent writes us as follow-
THE JAPANESE SPY MANIA,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1922.
House and Office Turned Upside Down. Despite the prevalence of a virulent type of cholers in Japan, | One of the kidnapped in theca seems to be causing the
recent raids by robbers in the
Pakhoi locality paid me a visit on the 18.b. October. He is a old friend of mine, of about 25 years' starding and gave me a few details of his advecture. He is the son of the village chief mentioned in previous reports. Els said:-
authorities considerable concern,
to,
offence was preferred againa! him. "I should very much like responded Mr. Andrews. "You are charged with baing an American sps," was the reply. Silence prevailed the rest of the way while the care rolled on to- wards the home of Mr. Andrews, The augmented force of raiders, now numbering 18, dashed into the Andrews home. There had been a the palice and minor judiciary little rain and Tokyo's disgraceful have get hold of another scare streets took on their normal garb of muddy sloppishness. In their and the majority of the Press has joined the minions of the law dirty boots, the Police went alt mud and cakes of moist earth to in declaiming through every font over the house, leaving lumps of of type the averags newspaper office possesses that a
plot mark their trail. Into the parlour, And the bed-rooms, the garage, the ia which foreigners "They released my father and Japanese are involved has been kitchen they tramped overs- mother owing to their old age and unearthed, the conspirators seek-here. Cupboards were ransack- ed, clothes atrewn about the floor! for the purpose of getting the
ing to supply a certain country including those of Mrs. Andrews, ready for ransam money.
which intends to declare war on
letters examined and covers still them There were
five
Japan soon with maps and charts books prized open to discover the of our family in their hands. of fortified regions in this land,"
Andrews My wife and self were tied up writes & Tokso correspondent to alleged offending photographs.
was not with ropes and taken on board the N, C. Daily News under date home during the raid. When pirate junk, on which there was Oct. 5 The term certain
she returned, she found the about afteen pirates. They all
country a euphemism for had rifle slung across their the United States, and the avidity place in an uproar, the house up- backs, and a Mauser pistol at with which the press has laid/side down and some of her best! tached to their belts and in adj hold of this fresh scare, shows clothes and carpets ruined. Thei police took away a couple of dition to this some of them had that the war bozey is never quite albums of photographs chiefly of revolvers and big knives in their last sight of despite the Washing friends of Mrs. Andrews and hands. They told me and mysan Conference. War talk may some letters which, as they had wife to look down on to the deck have been temporarily relegated been received during the war,
Mrs.
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edge of their kaives across the tainly has not been consigned to
ceasor. They looked "suspicious" hacks of our cacks and told us oblivion.
-to the police and were taken the kaires would be used app
away as evidence." Obviously. us if we were caught looking up-t
The charges of being a spy for the search had not been pro- wards or into the faces of
the American Government centredactive of the results hoped for, the pirates. Then they put my
round Mr. R. M. Andrews, chief as Mr. Andrews was once again wife
bole amongst
partner of the Andrewa & George asked if he had say more cumber of cther strange kidnapped women and girls, and one of the largest foreign photographe. "You have taken they put me down into another mercantile arms in Tokso. Mr. all the photograjas my wife and hole where there were three kid-Andrews, who is now getting on passers in
Γ years, has spent nearly replied. napped men. A short time after- wards, one of them handed down quarter of a century in Japan. to me paper, pan, and ink and has all his property invested in The next scene in this strange this country, and it was a well-and asinine drams staged at the sold me to write a letter to mown fact that both Mrs. An-instance of the police saw all the parents ilemanding. $5,000. This was the sum required for the drews and be intended to Apand chief participants in the Toxyo! release of the whole family. Ithe rest of their lives in Japan. District Court. Four accusations obeyed and handed the letter back During this long period, not the were made agains: Mr. of allegation drews Violation an to them, and then they closed up the hatch and I sat in the dark similar to the one just made bas navigatio laws of Japan; (2) hole. Many hours alterwards, been preferred against the veteran operating a motor-boat withou:
Mr. An- licence; (3) operating a motor-} they opened the hatch and hand-foreign businessman.
proper drews himself is painfully shocked boat without a
crew: ed down to me a bowl of rice, and astonished that charges of 80 and (4) entering B fortified! 3 large
of piece
zone without permission. To the saltpulsive a nature could be pre beel and three small
ferred against him.
Bre: three charges, which are fish and closed the hatch again.
The manner in which the police, merely technical, Mr. Andrews The next morning at daylight They began to blaze away for all accompanied by two judges of the pleaded guilty. With regard to they were worth with their rides District Court, are alleged to have the last charge, which virtually Mr. Andrews is and pistols. I could hear the carries out the raids on the office mesas tbat cracking of ritles and the booming of Mr. Andrews, situated on the accused of being a spy, he entered
Tokyo's most an emphatic ples of "not guilty of canneas a long way of. I also Ginza. oge 0: heard some rifle bullets crashing important thoroughfares, and on and pointed out that he had s into the junk, and I laid flat down his house in Shiba Park, would licensed Japanese captain driving .done credit to the the bost and if the craft had on my stomach in the bottom of have
of a movie-picture entered a forbidden zone, it was the host. The booming of the director
The "stant. The subordinate Japan- without his knowledge. cannons were coming nearr to
On
boiled
semblance
of
against
us and I could hes: the pirates ese official especially of the police. Judge then told Mr. Andrews on deck sharpening their knives has a queer predilection for dis-that the fourth charge was a on a piece of rock somewhere play and ostentation, mixed with criminal offence and that the Court:
head. above my
Then they arrogance, which he regards as had power to hold him in gaol deck, bolstering up his authority. Nose aand the trial was concluded, but called De up On and one of them began to wip of these were lost in the making owing to his recognized high I felt of the raids, and the crowds that standing amongst the foreign his knife on my hack.
and thought the gathered both at the home and community of Japan, he would ivery queer
return to bis end had come, but, instead, the place of business belonging to be permitted to was told to get a move on and Mr. Andrews were treated to a home if he assured the Court that help them to escape. I obeyed rare exhibition of ridiculous pombe would attend its sessions at and helped them to pull ropes posity. The thing might be dis-130 pm. next day.
missed with a smile and shrug The Tokyo press has not lost here and there.
Then the pirates ceased fire. of the shoulders were it not for the spy-and-war bogey opport- Several of them were wounded. the fact that Eehind it all was a unity that this latest campaign of from the serious charre which, according the police against foreigners, The large shells
into to the laws of Japan. if proved. in Japan has let loose, and gunboat
splashing We [??
a long term of impri-bas mobilized its biggest and the sen all around the juck, may mean some
close that the deckisonment without the option of a boldest type for the occasion. was all wel. They told me to Ene. That this charze was haaz-All sorts of wild stories are aflost, get down into my hole quicklying over one of the most highlr- that several foreigners, including] which I did and they again closed respected Sarein residents of an Englishman and an Indian the batch. Whilst there. I could! Tokyo wade the situation all the discovered to be well-known
British
and savezal spies," hear them purting overboard two more serious. small boats which they had on OFFICE AND HOUSE RANSACKED, Japanese are implicated "in sa and the press deck. and then, all was silent, Two motor-cars, with judicial extensive plot.
wonderful and it appeared as if all of the officials and police" in uniform, promises its readers bad left the junk. I again laid drove up to te office of Mr. An revelations soon.
Case Meantime, the down flat on the bottom of the drews. and simultaneously two junk, and the firing seemed to be other care, also with officials of Mr. Andrews is proceeding in the getting further away from us. the law, entered the grounds of Tokyo District Court. Then I heard some boats come Mr. Andrews' home in Shiba alongside and a number of people Park. After having pisced sen came on board. They opened the tries at all the entrances, the thatch and shouted down 'Come rest of the squad rushed upstairs. I cried Mr. Andrews was in his office at out or we will sagot.' But Don't, we are not pirates; the ting, and when the police we have been kidnapped. We announced that they had come
the place Mr. An-states that it is reported that a were all gathered on deck, and to search could see that these men were dress told them that they were at short-term loan of saree rallion from the Chinese cunboat. We perfect liberty to do so. Every-dollars is to be negotiated between Hongkong and Shanghai were then taken to Pakhoi in the thing in the place was subjected the junk. and after proving to the to a rigorous scrutiny and from Bank and the Government at military that we were not pirates the safes down to the drawers of 12 per cent. interes; per month, It is stated the different desks, each and without security. my wife and I were released."
every document, picture, memo, that the money will be paid over bill ani stock fist were within three days of the con- meticulously examined The clusion of the negotiations, and officials were on the spoor of that it will be used in connection photographs, bat failed to dis-with the redemption of bank- and corpfort to your eyes. If they cover anything "incriminating."notes.
The guards and police at the do and if the mountings are prop. A personal letter of Miss Hof- erly adjusted, they are All Right. mann's, secretary to Mr. Au-Civil Governor's yamen have Do not be satisfied unless they are, drew, in the course of which a been increased in order to pre- hoped she had veat citizens protesting against! There is no comfort in spectacles lady friend
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All Misaki" which, is near the entrance." They are either Right or
An aerial force, with three Wrong. If your glasses are in Japanese naval port of Yokohama need of changes, adjustments or was seized. That was all the seroplanes and bombs, has been the dramatic and ap despatched to Fukien. It is to be repairs, send them to the Hong-evidence kong Uptical Co., successors to parently carefully-planned raid under the control of General
Hang Shiu-taa. Clark & Co., refracting and elicited.
(the Mr. Andrews was then request manufacturing opticians originators of manufacturing ed to accompany the police and, Toric lenses in the colony) located on the way to his home, an inter- in 53, Queen's Road Central. They prater volunteered the inform- bave the equipment to adjuststion that Mr. Andrews would know what perhaps like to your glasses to a nicety.
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