'The Chinese driver of a motor lorry was detained at the headquarters of the Japanese Naval Landing Party on 'Aug. 13, when he was "arrested" for failing to stop promptly in response 49. Japanese sentry' signals by. the Chines Post Office in North Szechuen Road, The lorry" was travelling northwards over the Bridie wien the. Japanese sentries shouted to it to stop.
The lorry continued down the road, however, pursued by sentries, and the driver eventually pulled his vehicle {in to the side of the road and stopped by the Post Office. The sentries took hold of the driver and took him back fo the bridge. A Chinese police constable intervened, (0 no avail, and a foreign police officer's efforts to either free the man or take charge of him were quaily fruitless. The driver was eventually driven off in. the direction of the Naval Landing Party headquarters by the Japanese, accord ing to eye-illnesses of the scene,
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