The efforts of Japanese naval oflcers to induce the Commander of the Chi-nose cruiser Yin Swal to make arrangements with the Nineteenth Roule. Army for the landing of Japanese Investigators at Palehoi failed, the office of the Japanese Naval' Attache "here was informed yesterday, According to a report feedyed" from Lieut.-Commander Yoshito Miyasaka, of the Japanese gunboat Saga, he boarded the Yin Swel on Sunday afternoon and conferred with the commander of the Chinese vessel, Stating that he had received orders from the Minisiry of the Navy and the Commander of the Training Squadron only to proceed to Pakhoi on patrol duty, the Chinese officer Is reported "The following day, the Cisinese started a rumour to the effect that /Mtr. Nakano had been drowned. Simul taneously, they started a wide search for young Kiyoshi, who had disappeared. I believe ihe sought asylum. with the French Catholic Fathers The first news of the slaying probably was reported by the French fathers to their establishment /Hoichow, on Hainan Island, where Mr. Zensakw Katsumata, a Japanese resi lent, was informed, the woman believed.
was Mr. Katsumata's telegram to the Japanese Consulate-General at Hongkong that led to inquries Canton, where the news was confirmed.
Chinese and foreigners alike in Pakhoi were panicky when the frst reports of the impending occupation fof the port by the Ninteenth Route Army were received, the woman said. Wealthy Chinese led, while several foreigners, who under normal. conditions mimper nineteen sought re-{ugo in Hongkong and other ports.
The arrival of the troops was the sign for the beginning of a violent nti-Japanese campaign, and handbills urging the people to "swat the Japanese flles" were widely distributed, she said, Both she and Mr, Nakano remained mostly indoors "during the occupation, but her concern increased when she' heard a. Japanese radi broadcast telling of the killing of two Japanese and the wounding. of two others by a Chinese mob at Chengtu.
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