A curious: fiair occurred at the West Hongkew Police Station on Friday night. The German story is that two men of the Bast Asiatic Regiment were at _a tea house with two foreign policemen. The Germans complaine. that the tea was very work and the policemen offered to take them to another tex house where the tea was better, The Germans were taken to the West Hongkew Police Station, where an attempt was made to snatch their sword-bayonets away. Ca one of them endeavouring to prevent this, he was shot in the shoulder from behind, but he managed to escape, and yot into a jinricsha and went off to his camp to report what had happened, The other one was Deaten ino unconsciousness, handcuffed, and thrown into a cell. The matter was reported to the Chief Inspector, who at once sent out to the German camp, but the officer there ud already sent in a couple of sections with loaded rifles to demand the release of the man who was locked up. The man who was shot is, we understand, progressing favourably. " This is the German story.
The police story is that the two Germans were under the influence of liquor and were causing such a disturbance in the tea house
station for assistance. It was in conse-that the Proprietor sent round to the police quence of this that the two Germans were brought to the station, and as they resisted when the attempt was made to disarm them, the police sergeant fired his revolver in the air to intimidate them, accidentally hitting one of the German soldiers. It is very improbable that the police would take two German soldiers to the station without cause, but the shooting is quite incomprehensible.
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