Enclosure No.1.
TRANSLATION.
Confessions in connection with the Ching Case which
occurred in Tientsin.
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We, Chuk Chung-leung, native of Ku Chi of Honan Province,
age 19, third-year student of the Upper School of the
Tientsin Industrial and Commercial College, and Yuen Hon-
tsun, native of Sheung Yu of Chekiang Province, age 20,
first-year student of the same College, are the No.1 and
No.2 makers of these confessions respectively.
Our minds were affected by occurrences
following the July 7th incident,
the enemy not only
used her furious force to invade our country and massacre
our brethren, but also enlisted traitors of Han to carry
into effect her plan of employing Chinese to subjugate
China and to aid her in her evil-doings. Of the good
boys and girls of our Chinese nation, there was not one
who, filled with righteous indignation, had failed to
rise courageously to join the united front against the
enemy.
We are students still having schooling. We had
an ambition to give up our studies and join the army, but
circumstances had prevented its attainment. We had been
thinking, however, that with the hot blood filling our
chest we surely could, for the sake of our country and
our race, engage ourselves in punishing the traitors of
Han and thus we might deliver a blow to the attacker.
Then it happened that the puppet North China Federal
Reserve Bank under the enemy's direction had been
instituted. This puppet bank was in reality the head-
quarters of an institution for extracting our brethren's blood and flesh (= hard-earned money) in North China and
for impairing our country's finance. The manager of its
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