Hankow, June 11.
Yesterday afternoon a lorry belonging to the Japanese Navy, while making its way through the French Concession, struck down and fatally] injured a Chinese soldier who was Hing a bicycle.
The Chinese authorities requested! the French authorities to hand over the driver of the lorry, a Japanese, but he was turned over to the Japanese authorities.
June 12, reported in the local Chinese press that as a sequel to Tuesday's dent in which: a soldier messenger attached to General Ho Ying-ching's Headquarters was Killed in the French Concession Japanese Naval authorities have made a protest the Japanese Consular officials demanding an apology, compensa tion and the punishment of the Japanese naval rating who was riving the vehicle at the time the accident. It is further stated that the Japanese authorities have tendered an apology whilst the other matters are under consideration.
The body of the soldier has been removed from the roadway by the: Chinese authorities—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.