An exodus of Chinese from ter~ ritory north of the International Settlement was in full swing during the night on a scale similar to that which preceded the Sino-Japanese hostilities of 1032, The movement was principally from the Paoshan Road area Into Hongkew along North Szechuen Road, Haskell Road and other thoroughfares leading into the Settle~ ment, In addition there was a fair sized trek of Chinese from Chapel into West Hongkew and over the Soochow Creek bridges into the Seltlement "south of the creek."
An evacuation on @ smaller scale had already started on Saturday night when news of the fatal shooting and the consequent display of Japanese armed forces was known.
Police Chict Inspr. Wong Ta-tut, repreventing Gen. Teal Ching-chun, the, Public Enfely. "Commissioner for Greater Shanghat accompanied by Mr. Slane Foorchu, chief of the Paoshan Road Heaven of the Bureau, paid a coll on Sunday, morning. on the commandeer ofthe Japanese Naval Landing Party. According to oftelais of the Buren the call-was for the purpose of off In Chinese condotene over the death ofthe Japanese sailor.
Although "newspapers throughout span have given the greater prommence to the reports from Shang-hal of the shooting of a Japanese biuesJacket, details of the case are lacking. here, reports the United Press from Tokyo.
"A second witness was found Monday by the Municipal Police, as-Sisted by the Chapet Police, and ques-ea at Jongih at the Dixwell Road Police Station. and on the scene of the murder. "The. witness. is named Pan "Ghao-ying, 17-year-old Chinese Zimah employed' by a Japanese (amily Other events on Monday bearing on the cate were the funeral of the dead Marine, Hideo. Nakayama, from. the Landing Party headquarters in Kiang wan Road, & visit of the Jepanese ConsulsGeneral to Mayor Wu Te-chen, Snd a further, though less extensive, Algnt of Chinese from the Northern extra-Settlement area "About. 1,300 silent" civil, military and naval ofcials, soldiers, sailors, cxservicemen, school children and Fesidents attended the, simple cere-many on Wonglo. Road. behind the barracks of the Special Naval Land ing Party.
It was generally understood that the chief reason for the evacuation was the broadcasting of an alleged demand by the Japanese authorities that "free action" would be taken unless the murderer of the sailor was aporehended before midnight on Sunday
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