Hankow, Sept, 22.
Japanese marines sent from Shang-jai on two destroyers to reinforce the local detachment arrived here G o'clock to-night. Japanese. residents turned out in. force and lined the streets leading from the naval. wharf' to the Taisho Hall, where the unit. will be billeted.
Mr." Yoshiaki Miura, Japanese Consut-General, this afternoon opened formal conversations with Gen. Yang, Yung-tai, Chairman of the Hupeh Provincial Government. Prior to the conference, Mr. Miura told) Domei hat the policeman's murder was "one of a kind with other recent assassinations. of Japanese residents this country. "All these attacks were conducted by antieJapanese Mr. Miura added that the alleged Chinese attempts to avoid. responsibility for Yoshioka's murder, the ground that it was committed in the Japanese Concession, and to limit" their activities to offers of assistance In the search for the cul-brit, would not be tolerated, Heated Arguments The Consul-General's interview with Gen. Yang ended ina com-the body since the crime, as it wittly removed by Japanese na units, The exact location of the crime continues to the subject of \controversy. The Hankow Municipal authorities, it was learned to-day, have material evidence, which has, not yet been produced, to prove that the "constable was killed in. the Japanese Concession. The Japanese authorities, on the other hand, after having examined "a number "of, peddlers in the vicinity of the slay-Ing, obtained from them an admission thal the officer was killed a few yards north of the Japanese Concession, and that he was dragged into. the, Coneession.—United Press Hankow, Sept, 22.
Evidence of the sincere determination of the Chinese authorities to assist the Japanese in tracking down the murderer of Niwajiro Yoshioka provided by a house-to-house search jointly ordered by the Hupeh, rovinelal government and the Pacl-Aeation Commissioner's Headquarters. 'This action was taken voluntarily the Chinese authorities without any' Tequest from the Japanese consular officials, According to official Chinese sources, several more eye-witnesses of the murder have been detained by the Public Safety Bureau, Notifleation of this having been communteated (0, the Japanese authorities, a joint} Sino-Japanese questioning of the new witnesses, will be conducted, No other clues have been found to throw, sume lent light on the motive of the, murder oF the person who committed the erlme—Central News.
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