'Mr, 'Toyolchi Nakamura, Japanese' Consul-General at Canton, has fled strong protest with the Chinese authorities of Swatow over the arrest by Chinese police emeers of a Japanese consular policeman there on Saturday, the ""Shanghat Mainichi" reported' yesterday. The Japanese consular policeman was beaten and his clothes were torn by the Chinese, According to the Japanese reports, a Chinese policeman called at the home of Klycshi Aoyama of the Japanese Consular Police to remonstrate against the latter's changing hhis domicile without informing the Chinese police.
When the Japanese officer identi-fed himself, the Chinese offer left, Dut Ister returned with a party of 10 armed policemen who set. upon Aoyama and dragged him to the police station, the newspaper said.
After being detained overnight, Aoyama was released. He was said. to have charged the Chinese police with beating him.
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