Foreigners staying at the Broad: way Mansions, and in other parts of the Hongkew District, were unable to get across the Garden Bridge unfit well after dinner time, as access. Hongkew from south of the creek was bated, "even Japanese, understood, being stopped by naval entries on duly at the, bridge, The Szechuen Road Bridge was also cloged until about 9 o'clock.
'Meanwhile, passengers in the C.P.R. '8. Empress of Canada, berthed at the Shanghai & Hongkew' Co's Hongkew Wharf, were held up. The company eventually arranged for a special Tauneh to convey passengers down to the liner, and this left at midnight for the what Briton Fired On Mr, R. T. Oates, technical manager of Messis, Paton & Baldwin, Poyang Road, was on Mar. 23 back ai his job fler_an unpleasant experience on {he previous evening, when he was ved' upon following' the imposition of martial taw in the Hongkew Dis-
Questioned about his experience, Mr, Oales said that' there was nothing more to add beyond what! fad already appeared in the press. He was not harmed as a result of the attack, the reason for which is sull shrouded in mystery.
Meanwhile, a Japanece naval spokesman stated "on March 23 that the results of an overnight investigation into the shooting of Mi Kunimichi Igai, 51 year old civil employee of the Japanese Army, in-Gleated that "Mr. Igai shot himself. Previously, it had been reported that MIN. Tgalhad been murdered by some unknown person, Companions "Under Suspicion"
"However, we are unable to state! definitely who fired the fatal shot, ending the receipt of a complete: Neport™ the spokesman continued 1 matier of procedure, the mille tury police technically placed all of Mr. gai's companions under " sus-pleion", he said. "They have been questioned, and a report is now be-rhe vomiting of blood by the fatally Injured man, the spokesman continued, gave rise to {he belief that Me. Igaihad been shot in the head, the bullet emerging in the Following a visit to the former Customs Superintendent's Omice in Sinza Road, near Ferry Road, on March 21" by a party led' by: three Japanese in uniform, two notices in Chinese were posted out~ side the building which read: "Salt, Gabelle for Kiangsu, Chekiang and Chinese Troops in
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