In compliance with a Japanese request, the Shanghai Municipal Police authorities are continuing the examination of thirteen Chinese, suspected of being members of an anti-Japanese terrorist band, according to a Japanese Army communique issued here on Thursday night.
The men were rounded up in French Concession following an attack upon an Army skiff then passing under the Chekiang Road bridge, on the morning of December The assailant was caught by police as he was fleding from the scene of the attack, Information given by the man led to the apprehension of the suspects, Two Japanese soldiers, Pte. Tadao Suga and Pte. Shinji Nakajima, received wounds on the face. and foot respectively, the communique said.
Questioned by the police, the outlaw gave his name as Li Hsin-ni, a soldier in the Nationalist Army. and said that on evacuating Nantao on November 12 he received orders to embark on a terrorist campaign.
The headquarters of the band, the statement continued, were established in Nanchiao and Fenhsien, respectively south and east of Minghong.
On December 23, the communique said, 24 members of the band, armed with hand-grenades, entered the Settlement by way of Minghong and Siccawei, Five days later, hand-grenades were thrown at the skiff on Soochow Creek, Li was subsequently surrendered to the Japanese authorities.
In publishing the text of the communique, the "Shanghai United local Japanese daily, revealed the existence of a two-day press ban on news of the incident.
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