Japanese Marine Hit on Neck by a Pear Core A fresh "incident," which eventual involved members of the Japanese Naval Landing Party, affeers. from the Dixwell Road Station of the Shanghai Municipal. Police, and the Bureau of Public Safely, occir= red on North Szechuen food on September 21, when the core of 8 pear hit a Japanese marine on the neck, The "incident" culminated in the arrest of one Chinese, who was subsequently released after beirut severely eouitloned,
aval patrol, consisting of six men about 720 pin, a Japanese and a non-commissioned officer, was matching down North Szechuen Roa As the patrol passed the Happyland Cabaret, a Chinese-owned establish= ment, two pear cores came sailing out of w window, to land In the roads way near the patrol, which immediately came to the halt The N.C.O, complained to a Japanese constable of the Shanghai Munlcipal Police that someone had been "shooting pears" at them. The constable telephoned Dixwell Road Station, which immediately sent. a strong posse of officers to the scene, The posse arrived, to find that the Japanese patrol and innumerable constables from the. Public Safety Bureau hed the situation well hand, Two Japanese commissioned amicers of the Landing Party also put in, an appearance.
The oficial party proceeded upstairs, to find dancing and music well progress. No one seemed to know anything about it. Under a window, the police officers found a large stone coping, some five feet wide. From it, only the pavement on the opposite side of the road could be seen, By the presence of a large quantity of pear peeling behind the coping, It was rapidly deduced that some one had probably been sitting onthe coping watching the daneing, and had neg li gently lung. the cores. over "his shoulder into the roadway,
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