2 party of British, French ing military attache and Italian military officers attached {to the local defense force was tak-fen of a tour-throughout the Japa nese forward lines on Saturday, it was revealed yesterday, The officers sited the Nanaiang headquarters, where they were received by Gen eral K, Uyeda, the Commander of the ith, "Division, and proceeded later to Kating, These officers were invited by General Shirakawa to tour Luis lines, inasmuch as he them to see in person that the Japa~ nese forces, are s0 located preclude'a further advance and that All active combat in the front, tine Sector has" feminated. While fon the journey through the Lines, the foreign oticers were shown the Villages looted during. the Chinese and algo inspected the Chenju Wireless, Station, which wa Toft untouched by the Japanese their forward movement, The sta tion is now in active operation, though a Chinese oficial statement declared that It, had been destroyed following the 19th, Army each ton, Oficial Attacked While arguing with a Japanese naval, chauffeur regarding damage done by him, Afr, Havold D. Robi-Son, US. 'Trade Commissioner, was on Saturday afternoon attacked by Fapanese plain-clothes men of the Type whose activities have caused so"nuch, trouble during the past few weeks in' the Hongkew area, Fortunately Mr. Robison was not Irurty. than ies to some Japanese marines who deliberately got in the way of the rowdies without, however, making any attempt to lay hands on them.
Mr, Robison, shortly after 2 p.m had driven his ear to Range Road to have' look at the damage done in the area," While he was returning down this Toad, a" Japanese naval Torry came along, the haut four allegedly forcing Av. Roblson's ear' deliberately. into the side the road, the lorry then hitting the side of the ear, damaging and smashing a fender. As. obition shouted og the chauffeur, but the marines, on the Torry: attempt. to have the lorry" halted: ailthey did was to laugh at Mr.
This naturally made him annoyed, and he followed the, lorry until Stopped, a short distance "down North Szechuen Road at a Japanese Darvacks.. Here Int. Robison mancfinutfeur to aged to tract the attention of the the damage dene to his car, Then a party of five or six Jap-nese civilians came on to the scene, and interfered in the matter. "They elzed the chauffeur and started to pull him away, as if to indicate that he should not worry about any damage lone to a foreigner's, ear.
robison, touched one of these on the shoulder in protest, whereupon they all set on him, striking him several times but fortunately without any great force.
Japanese marines made some attempt to protect Mr. Robison by inter posing their bodies between the rowdies and Mr, Robison, but they made no attempt to lay hands on their eivitian countrymen, In all Mr. Robison was at this place about five minutes. With the marines between him and the row= dies, although the latter managed to break through several times, Inv. Robison was able to get into his ear and drive away, bat not before one of the Japanese had maney to hit him once more, through the open window of the car.
Japanese Assault Foreign Woman Washington, Mar. 5.
Press information to-day preceded consular advices in the case of Mies E. Rose Marlow, American teacher" of the Shung' Tak Girls' School at Shanghai, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Mission.
State Department officials received! a full story of the assault Miss Marlow by Ji as she was inspecting damage to the school on Friday, and learned that she had been beaten with a stick and hit in the face by a fist 'They said that they would await full" information from "Mr... Edwin 8. Ganningham, the Consul-General, before making' final decision, but that, it was probable the matter would be left in the hands of consular authorities for the present.
Tt was pointed out that the Statel Department has never settled the matter of the earlioy assault by Japanese civilians upon Sr. Arthur Ringwalt of the American Consulate at Shanghai, although the Japanese authorities had apologised. Mr. Ringwalt was kicked and otherwise mistreated when he defended an American woman whom he. was escorting in search of her lost child] near her abandoned home in Hongkew.—United Press.
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