Show BM S japanese Brutality in Attacks on Helpless Chinese Is Described r Ponce Police of Foreign Shanghai Prove Powerless to Halt Carnage t Editors Editor's Note The following followingS S graphic eyewitness account of k Japanese activities during warfare warfare warr war war- r r fare in Shan Shanghai hai was written byDon by byDon byDon Don King former Washington D. D C. C CF and New York newspaperman newspaper newspaper- man now no in China King has i lived in China many years and has served as a volunteer corps policeman The material is presented presented pre pre- i as Kings King's experiences in connection with his police work By B DON KING Copyright 1932 by the United Press Prese SHANGHAI Feb 1 I I-I I have witnessed witnessed wit wit- 9 killings in the section sect section sec sec- t i tion of Shanghai while stationed t there as a special policeman that were so brutal as to make my blood boil i The Japanese inaugurated a reign of terror in that section In which the rifle rUle was the arbiter of ot justice and f the machine gun the court of appeal it seemed to me I They refused to permit police and regularly constituted authorities of the settlement to function Settlement Settlement Settle Settle- ment police were forced to stand by 1 helplessly while hile unresisting Chinese were killed how Wiled how many never will be bea a known because the bodies have beenA been A removed The Japanese appear intent upon cleaning out the entire Chinese population population la lation of the settlement north of creek where there has been sniping I cite the following incident to illustrate how they are arc going about it ft 3 HOUSES DOUSES RIDDLED II One shot was fired ired by br a Chinese Chines e i 5 sniper in the vicinity of ot the Wooi Woosung Woo Woo- I i 1 sung and roads one block from rom the municipal police station Immediately I saw two squads o of f t Japanese marines each man armed with a machine gun go into action A whole row of houses was riddled with bullets Repeated bursts of or fire Ire were loosed from two sides When the clatter of machine guns was stilled Japanese marines marine s smashed the door of ot a corner res restaurant I f t rant and dashed in as two unresisting unresisting ing Chinese waiters fell dead before their rifles There was more firing g upstairs Then three more Chinese went shuffling up the road with their r hands bands held high toward the Japanese club the first step en route to thet the t execution grounds at the Japanese e school and the headquarters of th the e Japanese landing parties The Japanese with bayonets prodded prodded prodded prod prod- ded the aged weak and wounded to move faster Meanwhile marines had searched all other houses in the vicinity And soon another parade moved up the street toward the Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese club FIRE O ON PRISONERS ERS ERSt t t Frightened a group of ot ignorant Chinese coolies began to scatter As 1 thc they drifted toward the sidewalk the Japanese marines opened up on t their prisoners with machine guns buns jt A group of oC settlement police stood b by unable to stop the killings Some Someo f o of the Chinese sought refuge behind t the police only to be clubbed back into line by the ever present The Japanese waving pistols charged into a group of Americans and British police to regain their prisoners One Chinese who lagged behind received a bayonet thrust from a marine who stopped to wipe the bloody blade on a convenient t I sandbag The Chinese staggered screaming and bleeding up the street On road I saw a Chinese Chines e pedestrian who failed to put hi his s J hands up fast ast enough to suit a challenging chal dial Japanese marine The Chis Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- s nese whose meager worldly belongings belong belong- belongings ings could be carried in a sack across his back was ripped b by a Japanese bayonet and tossed to the roadside i An American living Ing nearby telephoned telephoned tele tele- I phoned for an ambulance The marive marine marine ma ma- rine rive refused to let lct the wounded man be taken to the hospital He la lay moaning in the rain for or an hour be- be for he was removed REFUSE MEDICAL AID The refusal to permit a Chinese t to 0 I have medical aid was not an isolated incident Two police detectives detectives de de- asked permission to take wounded Chinese to a a. hospital but bu t the Japanese refused This Is the probable reason for Cor this Japanese activity Th The Japanese were unable to make headway against the Chinese troops in m the Chapel quarter which was l practically wiped out by fire They then turned their attention i to the Chinese within the boundaries of the settlement The Chinese snipers snipers snip snip- ers irritated them The move mo to ij clean out the district followed The result To step across Soo Soo- chow creek a little stream separating the section heart of ot the r troubled international settlement rj from the thc business district of the great cIt city is is to step back thousands of years to primitive days J |