Shanghai, Aug. 24.
Regrets for the incident and an assurance that the Japanese Special Servicemen concerned with incident in the British defence sector fon August 13 had been punished, are contained in a letter addressed to, Major-General A. P. D. Telfer-'Smollett, Commanding Officer of British Forces in the Shanghai Area, from a high Japanese officer. As: surances are also given that incidents of this nature will not occur in the British sector in the future.
The incident" was one of several the International Settlement on Saturday, August 13, the anniversary outbreak of the "loca hostili-tes." Two Japanese members of the Special Service Section of the Japanese Army, and two members: of the "Ta Tao* Government police force appeared on Edinburgh Road, near Great Western Road, at about Sam. and began to bully shopkeepers, endeavouring to get them to, pull down the Chinese national flags freely displayed that day.
Two Chinese were "arrested" by the party after a display of revolvers, and two shots were fired into the air. All four were then arrested by the Shanghai Municipal Police, the two Special Servicemen being subsequently handed over to the Japanese authorities "NCD.N." Photo.
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