Another disgraceful affray in which a number of Japanese sailors were involved, that might very well have been attended by serious results, took place in the Hongkew district about midnight on Thureday. The trouble started with an apparently no provoked assault upon a woman in Yala Road, by a Japanese sailor. An Indian constable attempted to arrest the man, but he succeeded in eluding his grasp, and reinforcements were secured, and though the Japanese again showed fight they calmed down when a revolver had been discharged into the air by Det.- ig. Sergeant Croikshank. The sailors retired hastily to the Naval Clab in Yuhang Road, which was immediately surrounded by the police. Mr. Takishima, the Police Inspector of the Cousalate, was summoned by telephone, and after communication had been opened with Mr. Kitaki, Japanese Consul-General, who wns aroused tw during the night, a Japanese naval guard was procured to arrest the men on the premises. In the morning tone of the men were charged at the Japanese Police Court, bat the rest of the sailors were sent on board their ship, and it is to be feared that it will be difficalt to identify them as having taken part in the affray. Further details of the disturbance were brought out in evidence at the Japanese Consular Court yesterday morning, and a report of the proceedings will bw found on another Page.
Last night more Japanese sailors parader Hongkew in gangs, authorities might consider the advise ability of stopping shore-leave on the Shanghai station, as these repeated disturbances threaten to become standing disgrace to the Japanese navy.
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