Fight Between French Sailors ahd Chinese Police Hankow, June 15.
For the first time in its history Eth Yao Road, the cabaret district of Hankow, is) not visited to-night]
sailors. or officers from foreign Bundoats in port. As a result of al shooting affray last night. between the French sailors und the Chinese! police outside the Palermo Cafe, aval men are forbidden, for a few days at least, to come ashore in onder avoid further trouble.
©The American sailor who was shot and injured in the leg during the indic, is "Cappy" Ricks of the U. Goam. He was struck by a bullet while watching the battle and was Immediately taken back to the sh 40 receive medical attention. Ricks" ¢ondition is not serious, according to the ship's physician, Although all the arrested sailors ave been handed back to the French naval authorities upon the request of the. French Consul-General, the cease still vemaing unsettled and has been transferred to the Public Safety Bureau, A controversy has arisen sto who actually fired the first shot—the party of French sailors or the Chinese police. The Chinese police authorities claim that the naval men fired at one of their poli Constables first and that as evidence they have seized a pistol from one "Yt han who took- part ithe} ight.
"The French authorities declare, however, that none of their men eavried any gun while they were on here and that the police merely' telzed the pistol from one of the! French naval. officers who rushed from their ship to the scene of rouble to enforce discipline over the tailors.
'Examination of the pistol revealed that no bullet had been fired from: that weapon, But who shot. the Chinese policeman? This probably' will never be known. The French Naval authorities declared that. it simply could not have been the amen, The controversy over this point]
likely to delay settlement of the incident—United. Pre
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