Shanghai Municipal Police search-parties and patrols of the First Bcttalion, the Seaforth Highlanders, continued to operate, at regular int vals, im the Louza district yesterday Plain-clothes members of the Japanese Military Police accompanied some of the Police parties in their n of Chinese hotels, lodging-houses and alley n ihe morni afternoon.
The district remained quiet throughout the day. Detectives mean-ves while continued their investigation of the mysterious shooting which took place at Nanking and Chekiang Roads on Wednesday evening, when a Chinese hawker was wounded slightly in the back ofthe neck. No one had been arrested for the crime at a Into hour.
The Police also are trying to find the driver of the motor-car on the running-board of which a foreign police-sergeant was forced to make wild dash through Nanking Road on Wedne The car, which was driven by a Japanese, had no licence tes and when the foreign sergeant attempted to halt it and stepped on the running-board, the driver creased the speed and, without heeding "stop" signals, drove to The Bund. where the policeman managed to jump off.
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