The Archive · 1936

Witnesses Sought

Several officials of the Shanghai [city Government are engaged" in making inquiries and daily contacts with the Japanese Consular Police and the Settlement Police, who have agreed to render assistance In thi investigation, Among the witnesses questioned by the" Chinese Police were Sun Chung-san, a rickshaw puller, who assisted in putting the Japanese clerk into a rickshaw, a Chinese wom hen" Chenoa, anda "vogtable hawker, Wang Chi-ping.

According Yo <t Japanese. report Wang had told the Police that ho was passing through the street on his Dieyele on his way home from the /Sansin Market, Dixwell Road, when he saw a group of about ten persons. Ho dismounted and saw a body, where jhe [hand was til gripped by a child of about eight years. Two other children, the witness said, were holding each other and erying loudly. When Wang continued on his way, he saw three or four Japanese women standing at the entrance of an alley neat by. Knowing one of them, who was customer at the Sansin Market, Wang told her that a Japanese ac-Jcompanied by three children had collapsed in the street, All. of th Women except a girl of about 17, Wang told the Police, rushed to the scene,

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