Due to Japanese Arresting Propaganda Agents Nanking, May 4, One Nationalist military offer and several civilians are reported killed in Tsinanfu and considerable damage done to many houses there following an armed clash between the Japanese and Nationalist troops yesterday afternoon.
The shooting occurred when Japanese troops unwarrantably rested several members of the Nationalist Propaganda Corps and threatened to shoot any one attempting to pass through a small street to the 4th Main Street in the where Japanese soldiers had pre Viewty put up beched-were bar.
A. careful investigation is b made concerning the affair and actual number of persons killed a injured. But with both the Commander-in-Chief, General Chiang Kai-shek, and the Minister of ign Affairs, General Huang Fu, Tsinan, the situation is believed well in hand.
All foreign Consulates are being, guarded by Special Military Police despatched: by Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek.
One report states That upon earn. ing of the conflict, General Chiang Kai-shek immediately gave orders ti the Nationalist troops to stop firing, though the Japanese continued firing at random till as tate ax 6 o'clock in the evening.
General Huang Fu, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has already started. negotiations with the Japanese authorities over the unfortunate in-int. He is understood to have demanded the withdrawal of all Japanese troops from Tsinanfu—Kuo Min.
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