Asked if he carried a gun, the Commissioner said "No. If you carry a gun, you may shoot it at the wrong time; and what use is one gun? Sixteen machine guns would be a different thing.
To evade the danger of being accused of using the root of the post office for, signalling purposes, M. Chapelain; has seen that every door to the roof is soundly locked.
He inserted himself behind the Sir Charles Little Brands Japanese Story False London, Aug. 29, The text of the Note on the wounding of the British Ambassador in China, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, for presentation to the Japanese' Government is learned to have been telegraphed to the British Charge d'Affaires in Tokyo, Mr. J. L. Dodds, last night. It is intended to publish the Note after presenta tion.
Meanwhile, in connection with the suggestion made in Japanese quarters in Shanghai that Sir Hughe should have notified the Japanese before undertaking a motor journey from Nanking to Shanghai, competent quarters in London point out it is strange to suggest that the Ambassador of one foreign Power Should notify the representative of another foreign Power before motor~ ing along a high road in a country in which he is accredited.
Concerning the repeated sugges tions that the shooting took place in the war zone, it is understood that the party motored many miles without seeing signs of Chinese troops.
Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, has cabled to London characterizing as "complete and utter fabrigation" the story circulated \\n. Japan that he had told the Japan Admiral in Shanghai that the "shoot ing was brought on by the Ambassador's imprudence."
Mr. R. G. Howe, former Counsellor at the British Embassy in China, left London yesterday for China, where he will take charge during the Ambassador's incapacitation,—His route was not indicated, but part of the journey will be done by air—Reuter.
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