Asked how the Chikiang Road incident, in which a Japanese blue-Jacket was killed, was being settled, the spokesman said that os soon as the incident was reported to the Municipal Government, the authorlles despatched two high officials of the Administration to conduct an investigation on the spot in conjunetion with the Japanese Consular of-
"Due to the many strange, my-serious and contradictory reports. on the affair," he asserted, "it has not yet been possible to establish the identity of the culprit, as the Chinese proposal to hold an' autopsy on the marine for an examination of the bullet wound has not been accepted by the Japanese consular "Both sides have not yet agreed to sign, the report of the. indin the joint investigation committee The only evidence sable for refer: ence is the bullet found on the
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