Shanghai, Apr. 3: EN, Shunroku Hata, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces the Shanghai area, on April 1 rejected: in strong terms the protest addressed to him on March 29 by Major-Gen, A. P, D, Telfer-Smollett, Commander of the British troops here, a Japanese military spokesman announced yesterday morning.
The British protest dealt with in-
Japanese Stone, Bite Briton Shanghai, Apr. 3.
Mr. J. dos Remedios," a British subject, was attacked and wounded about the face and left hand yester~ day morning by two Japanese civilians while sitting in a motor-car parked in, Changchun Road, near North Szechuen Road, "He was pulled out of the car, beaten with a stick and with pieces of brick, bitten in the left forefinger by one of his assailants, and pulled by his necktie fand other clothing Road boundary. of the British Def-fence Sector" March 28 when Broups of Chinese demonstrators celebrating the establishment of the "Reformed Government of the Republic of China" sought to proceed towards the Settlement.
"It is a matter of regret", the Japanese military spokesman said at the press conference yesterday morn-Ing, "that the British commander, acting on a one-sided observation, should have assumed a discourteous altitude towards the Commander-in Chief of the Japanese forces.
"The British commander's action of protesting in writing to the Japanese Commander-in-Chief on the basis The alleged "crime" for which Mr. dos Remedios was punished by the two Japanese, who are reported to bbe ainemployed carpenters. recently arrived in Shanghai, was that he "honked his horn" as he pulled into the Kerb in Changehun Road. Actually, according to information given to the Municipal Police, it was a Japanese car behind the Briton's vehicle which was responsible for the horn-tooting.
Mr, dos Remedios, who is on the staff of Messrs, Algor & Company, agents for the North End Court Apartments, arrived in his car with Mr. W. W. Monk, resident manager of the Apartments, at about 9.30 a.m, Because of the fancied insult to then, the two Japanese carpenters ran to the side of the car, where one of them gave the door a hard kick while the other picked up a piece of wood fand started to hit the startled driver, Then the Japanese pulled Mr. dos Remedios out of the driver's seat and continued the treatment on the pave~ ment.
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