THE YORKSHIRE POST

Leeds, Yorkshiren, England

11 March 1933

(page 12)

BRITISH JOURNALIST ARRESTED.

Mr. Gerald Yorke, one of the Press Association’s correspondents in the Jehol war zone has been arrested by the Chinese military authorities at Miyunhsien, fifty miles from Peking, while returning from the Jehol front. Mr. York is being held in custody at a small Chinese inn. The charges against him are unknown.

Mr. Yorke, who is the son of Mr. Vincent Wodehouse Yorke, of Tewkesbury, Gloucester, left Peking for the Jehol war front about a fortnight ago.