Daily Telegraph 2.9.34
HONG KONG RIOT PRECAUTIONS
CAMPS FOR JAPANESE From Our Own Correspondent
HONG KONG, Wednesday.
As the outcome of a wave of violen anti-Japanese demonstrations yesterday the police, with the approval of th Japanese Consul, have ordered the cor centration in one area of all Japanes nationals. Camps are to be established. This decision followed protests Japanese residents, many of whom are no leaving Hong Kong, which was struck b a typhoon to-day.
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Several Chinese, mistaken for Japanes by excited mobs of their own countrymen were attacked and beaten during yester day's disturbances.
Throughout the night hundreds of police were standing by at all the city's police stations. Special riot squads armed with shotguns were organised.
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PROTECTION OF JAPANESE IN HONG-KONG
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
HONG-KONG, Sept. 1 The Japanese air raids on Canton yes- terday have produced intense bitterness among the local Chinese, who are now assembling in hostile crowds before Japanese-owned shops. In consequence the Government are concentrating the Japanese, numbering 1,300, for protec- tion. Two hundred women and children are leaving for Japan to-morrow, and others will go later. Tumes
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