Mysterious Chinese Challenged:
Geod Work by Police shooting incident which caused Jconsiderable consternation amongst shopkeepers and pedestrians in. the vicinity of the intersection of Kiang.
Road and Avenue Edward VIL occurred just after nine o'clock last Friday night. Motorists, hearing the shooting, came to a halt with a screeching of brakes and Chinese ran in all directions, It appears that 'a Chinese constable attached to Central Station Jcbaerved that two Chinese dressed in. white clothes were acting somewhat suspiciously, and when be challenged them, one of the men produced an automatic pistol and attempted to shoot, the click of the trigger being, heard by several bystanders, For [some reason ie weapon failed to function and in the meantime the; constable fired five shots. The man. Jducked and attempted to escape into, ithe French Concession. A. Senealose policeman attached to the French Police heard the shooting, Jand although not on duty and unfarmed rushed towards the retreat-jing man and by a clever manauvre tripped him up, bringing him to the The fall incapacitated the man Jand the policeman quickly disarmed him. He was taken to the French Police Station and was subseque ly handed over to the Shanghi Municipal Police. The man acco Fanying the arrested man escaped und the potice are nuw endeavouring, to obtain the story of their eseapnde and the intentions of the two men when they started out armed with was made to get buck the luggage] which had been left in the swamped ea: on the plain where the tidal wave had first been encountered.
One of the party swam out to the car and loosened two of the bags; h had been securely tied to the footboard. About 100 Japanese peasants were obtained to wade! through water up to their shoulders al} the missing in the vicinity. All but one bag belonging to the lady were in this way rescued, but the battered and stained condition of] the apparel, ete., inside the bags wrooly needs description.
On the retarn journey Nagasaki, four days "after the original start, still further a: pects Jot the frightful gale were seen. In tone place a large junk was rammed up against the railway far inland latter" having been, it. is believed, Washed there by the tidal wave, All slong the walls and buildings passed fon the return trip, the party noticed ions of grasshoppers, also, presumably washed, apt. gf the. shrubs jand tree tops. which had. been, sian places entirely under water.
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