A Japanese civilian was assaulted bya mob of Chinese on Friday night at 8.10 o'clock on Soochow. Road near the Kiangse Road Bridge. Before help arrived he was 0 badly, beaten that he could give no account what happened and he died early yesterday without regaining con-'Sciousness. There is no trace of his Yesterday morning a Japanese employed in the mills, was assaulted on Robison Read. It is understood that he will have to remain three weeks in hosp!
Foreign press correspondents and representatives of the Shanghai newspapers who have been assembing daily for a "news" conference high Japanese Naval officers stationed here during the present etisis, were the guests of the Imperial Japanese Navy at a cocktail yesterday aboard M.S. Tdzumo, moored near the Japanese Consulate-General. In ad-ition to the members of the flagship's commissioned personnel, and naval staff officers, the hosts for the Joreasion included' Vice-Admival 'Nomura, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese squadron now in these waters, Rear-Admiral K. Shiosawa, the Second - in - Comnians, 7 'Adwival Shimads, the Naval Chi of-Staff, ai Mizumo, Aidesde-Camp to the Commander' and the official interpreter Jat the press conversations. Dr. O.)K. Mui, who also has met the press representatives daily as representative of the Imperial Consulate General here, and several other Imperial consular attaches, were present at the gathering, The Fire-Cracker Panic The full story of what happened subsequent (o the Rrecracker "panic" on Friday has not been told. - For more than an hour the supply of ammunition sufficed. " Thereafter the crowds were ata loss as to their next mores, Otheis then provided them with activity, As. passengers in motorcars "drove through the thronged roads, with Kuomintang fags, fising from windows in great numbers, the idlers seized on them a pretext for agitation. Their Shouts" attracted those on the pave ents who. swarmed in sich HUI. hers that the police had to take steps.
Nanking Road was cleared in short omer by Louza and Central police station men, to whose 2: nce came the Reserve Unit, where-pon the crowds moved along si roads. Louza police drove them far_as Soochow Greek, and, inas-buch as the bridges were more than full, a great number took to boats. 'The' gist Infantry assisted where they were needed. severe caution.
With the outbreak of "hostilities", Japanese. deployed troops to the Attempt to Create Panic bridge-heads across the Tientsin, Mar. 4, Twenty men With reference to the recent rered at Garden Ports that the Japanese intended to parties took [take over Shanhaikwan and also the up station at Chapoo and Szechuen Shanhaikwan-Peking section of the Road Bridges. Half a company of Peking-Mukden Railway, it is learn-men and a large number of machine Jed from authoritative " Japanese gunners "protected "the Japanese consulate, Three motorcycles with curees thal no uch, desis were armed men went as far as Nanking tary authorities, PDs Jand Szechuen Roads. No demand on their services, however, was made.
The scare started when Japan-lose gendarmes from a section of the Peking-Mukden railway outside the [Great Wall appeared without our
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