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Show w 1 J MAKES CHARGES AGAINST BRITISH TROOPS IN CHINA j New Orleans. Jan. 24. Stories of I friction between the British and Jap- I anese who captured Klaochow, the German possession In China, and j charges of brutality by British sol- diers toward noncombatants there are j contained in a statement published I here today and attributed to Sister Helene of the German Red Cross. I With a party of women and children, Sister Helene is on her way from I Tsingtau to Germany through the United States. 1 "After capture of the city Japanese treated us kindly, gave us good food. j and showed us every' consideration " I the statement said, "but the British J were brutal, using bad language in jj - front of the women and making threats against us. 'The Japanese and English are not as friendlv as the world believes. Sev- ji , v eral times the Japanese and English were close to open rupture and only I the control exercised by their officers I : prevented serious trouble. I saw this . with my own eyes.'' i ' |