Japanese military authorities Shanghai yesterday "accused the Chungking "Government of - having rected the assassination of "Chie nese constable ofthe Municipal Police and the of a Sikh policeman of by Chinese gunmen li Oct, 20 nighi's tinge at the intersection of n and Edinburgh Roads, effort to disrupt negotiations between the Sh Council and authorities of the Special Municipality. regard ing policing and taxation problems on extra-Settlement roads, The Chung) plot was described as a deliberate effort breach these cordial relations and further to increase difleu ies between the of the rational Settlement.
Contradicting reports thi stables of the "Special withdrew before the shooting, nie conducted by the Japan ese showed that one trafic police man and four detectives in civilian clothes were la the vicinity at the time or the attack, They, were taken' by surprise when the gunmen ape ill-did not have' time fo return the fire,
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