Involved Case in Tientsin Causes New Troubl Protests and Demands Follow Rapidly Tientsin, July 22, 'A Chinese detective employed by the Japanese Consular police here was shot and. killed. this afternoon by guards at the Yamen of the Mayor, Gen, Chang Tze-chung. The detective, who had arrested a member of the Mayor's Yamen guard in the Japanese Concession, was conveying him to the Hopei section of the city for investigation when the incident occurred, Just. as the motor-car in which the detective and his prisoner were riding the gate of the Yamen, the guards on duty opened fire the vehicle, killing the detective. It is alleged that the shooting was the result of a misunderstanding. The guards, it is slated, hearing the arrest-€d man shout, and seeing a struggle going on inside the car, assumed that their comrade was being kidnapped and opened fire.
The body of the stain man was! removed by Japanese police, while: Japanese consular and military authorities, as well as the gendar-merle, have sent representatives "to the scene of the shooting nvestiate the affair.—Reuter.
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