The Japanese consular authorities are befiled by the mystery surrounding the alleged suicide of a young man who shot himself on a sampan ud fell into the Whangpoo River at. dawn on July 9. Notified by the water "police, Japanese consular policemen went to the Wayside Pub-fie Jetty, and, in a sampan tied up there, they found an empty dox of a cheap. brand of cigarettes, two match-boxes, and a crumpled copy of local paper dated July 3.
According to the boatman, two youths in Western clothes appeared the jetty about 430 in the mornig. One of them boarded his sampan and told him to proceed to the Shutsul wharf on the Pootung side. Halfway. across, the youth changed his mind and ordered the boat back. Suddenly, the passenger whipped out 8 pistol, shot himself twice and fell over into the river.
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