The tension was jélaxed after the arrival of the two officials, and the. incident was quickly settled on the spot. The Japanese soldier agreed, while still standing on French territory, to shake hands with the Russisn, but the French official insisted that the two shake hands in the middle of the-across the imaginary line separa Nantao the Concession.
Japanese soldier and the Russian policeman shook hands, the former standing in Nantzo and the latter in the Concession, and the incident was then considered settled, the Japanese troops dismounting their machine guns.
By yesterday afternoon, all was quiet on the border, with Chinese police in their distinctive uniforms petrolling on the Nantao side, armed only with batons, and French police with rifles and fixed bayonets rnarehing up and down on (he Concession side. An occasional car carrying Japanese troops was the only traffic along the Boulevard. A French police armoured car was stationed during the afternoon of the gate at the end of the French Bund leading on to the Boulevard des Deux Re-publique.
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