No Action to be Taken by Nationalist -Authorities Nanking, Sept, 21.
Semi-official reports state that the Nationalist Government will not take up the "Shun Tien Shih Pa case. The Chinese language new paper in Peking which is owned an edited by Japanese is reported to have been recently boycotted by the people in that city. The case. has been dismissed by the authorities here on the ground that the alleged discriminations against the Japanese daily are "only romours."~—Renter. of a battalion of the Second Army. Corps were engaged in removing some 2,200 chests of ammunition from the Arsenal to the wharf, As these wore being, carted neat the Han Hsi Men, an explosion occurred in one of the boxes. This caused the other boxes likewise to explode and those on another haad" cart. Bullets went flying through the air in all directions and a police: man and seventy or cixhty other people were killed instantancousty, the bullets peppering them. In addly tion, more than 40 other people were wounded and nearly 70 houses were demolished.
The Commissioner of Publis Safety at once wont to, the spot with a large number "of police to maintain order and to remove ly) wounded: The dead wore taken the mortuary,
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