Hankow, Sept. 25.
The Japanese contention that Niwajiro Yoshioka was killed in Chinese territory and later removed Into the Japanese Concession found refutation by a new witness discov ed by the Chinese authorities yes-Terday, This witness declared he was standing on the Bund, facing the river, when he heard report resembling a gunshot, but, when turned around, he saw nothing but a cigarette stand, where an old man was standing and a child sitting. He could not see the place from whence the noise had come, as it was obstructed by the godown of the Standard ON Company, He was certain he saw nothing happen near the cigarette stand where. the Japanese med the murder was committed.
inding nothing unusual had happened, the witness emphasized, ho paid tio more attention to it, think the noise probably was the ting of a rickshaw tyre—Central
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