At 9 o'clock last night, the Italian Marines assumed complete military control of the district around Brenan Piece by mutual arrangement with the Shanghai Municipal Police and the Shanghai Special Municipality Police, who withdrew their patrols. The strictest precautions were introduced, no' vehicles being allowed] to enter the district.
All doors and windows of houses and shops were closed and lights extinguished, and from this how onwards the streets were practically deserted.
The shooting brought squads police, "including armoured car patrols and the.red vans of the Reserve Unit, to the immediate vicinity of the shooting. The Royal Hallun Marines, in whose sector the scene lo nated, sent steel-helmeted detachments to Brenan Piece and instituted increased patrolling. Detailed quiries were made during the morning by Col. Joseph C.. Fesan, commanding the Fourth "Regiment of United States Marines, and Major K. M. Bourne, Commissioner of Police, made a tour of the area at about 'Owing to the darkness and the furtive "operations of the attackers, the regular authorities were unable fo learn exactly how many "more casualties were' suffered by the occupants of 1081 Jessfield Road, whence the shooting was begun. Two Chinese in plain clothes were taken away from the house, dead, by Japanese Gendarmes, but it was. held possible that there Were some wounded as well who were kept out of sight.
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