Running full tilt la order to elude his two pursuers, wae were rapidly drawing up on him, a male Chinese, handcuffed, dashed up to a Sikh police constable on traffic duty at the corner of Nanking and Szechuen Roads at about 9.30 last night, and appealed to the constable for protection. The man's pursuers turned out to be Japanese military policemen, in plain clothes, and they explained to the Sikh constable that they had taken the Chinese into custody on suspicion of being a terrorist.
The constable immediately put the man under arrest, and took him to Central Police Station. The military policemen insisted upon accompanying the alleged terrorist to the station It was later ascertained that the man had managed to escape from his two tors, and had made a bolt for safety. The alleged terrorist was detained at the police station for further questioning.
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