Oct. 23.
A sculls between a member of the Chapel Public Safety Bureau and several Japanese on Darroch Road carly yesterday morning resulted in the constable receiving a wound in the left hand and a Japanese being shot in the right.
The trouble, it appears, arose over the payment of a hire car chauffeur though the Chinese statement is thet the Japanese attacked the constable without provocation, one drawing pistol and firing a shot at him, the bullet penetrating his left hand. The Japanese version of the affair is that the chauffeur summoned the constable who arriving on the scene, drew his pistol and. fired a shot which caused a wound in the right hand of one of the Japanes.
Another report of the affair indicates that a party of seven Japan-exe, some of whom are thought to
at Darroch Road in a hire' car and have been drinking heavily, arrived offered $1.20 in payment, which the chauffeur refused to accept, wheropon, it is stated, he was assaulted. The driver made off into Chapei and found the constable who returned with him. "It is reported that a seuflle ensued and that three shots were fired. The constable admitted firing once and he alleged that one of the Japanese also fired two shots. The Chapel police conducted an investigation and found a spent.32 re shell and a loaded cartridge, as well as a Mauser cartridge.
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