he first 0 get to the scene, and, in steel helmets and with fixed bay-tenets, they threw a cordon about the place, several score of Marines being posted in the neighbourhood. Next arrived the Japanese Consular Police and the Chapei Police, the Inter actually. having jurisdiction, The Chapel Police asked for the assistance of the Settlement Police, which was immediately granted, and high uniformed and detective ' of-dals, including Mr. S. Uychara, Assistant Commissioner, attended, a few minutes Dixwell Road was humming with activity. Japanese naval patrols were riding up and down, instructions were shouted and men posted at strategic points, Motor Accident Reeulle As an indirect result of the turn-ut, a serious motor accident occurred at the intersection of Dixwell Road and Pao An Road, a block rom Chi 'Mel Road, within twenty minutes of the crime, when a westbound Japanese motor-cycle patrol and an east bound roadster, driven by foreigner, collided' head-on. The two Japanese marines with the motorcycle and sidecar were seriously injured, especially the marine in the Bidecar, whose chin wus crushed the City "Government, in the afternoon and"conveyed to him his views expressed in an earller statement to the press regarding both the Kayau and the Nakayama cases In, that statement, Rear-Admirat Kondo referred to the seriousness of the two incidents and warned. that the Japanese Landing Party may be compelled to take any steps it considers necessary at any time that it should ud that the Chinese authoritles tack the good faith or ability to maintain order and to protect the lives and property of Japanese, residents.
Meanwhile, the police authorities are exhausting every resource to trace the murderer of the young Japanese. As the shooting took place in Chi Mei Road nearly 150° fect from Dixwell "Road, the Chinese Bureau of Public Safety in charge of the case. The oticers of the Bureau are being assisted by the Japanese Consular" Police and detectives of Dixwell 'Road Station (Municipal Police), Statements of woman witness and persons living in the neighbourhood were taken during the ay, 'Kaya, who was shot through the' back of the head, probably at close ange, died in the Foo Ming Hospital at 105 am. on July Il, four fand a half hours. after the attack. As he never regained consciousness hho was unable to throw any light on the circumstances which led to the murder. An autopsy was performed in the afternoon of July 11 and the bullet removed from the brain, wiiers it had lodged above the lett eye. It Was a 32 calibre missile and it was sent to the police laboratory for possible identifeation, Meanwhile the spot where Kayau! slumped to the ground in the dark Chi Mel Road at Asia Li was being. carefully guarded by Japanese mili tary and Chapet police. The martial display of July 10 in the night, to be sure, had been called off, but enough [Japanese Marines remained posted to [prevent the curious from nearing the scene of the crime, which was marked out with chalk in Japanese fashion. Unlike Friday night, when steel helmets and bayonets' were much in evidence along Dixwell Road and neighbouring streets, he sen-ries on July 11 carried only. side-
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