Wharf Btanager of Hals Wharf, who has gone on Home On Leave, Japanese Use Guile To Trap Guerillas Shanghai, Mar. 29, Pamphlets, praising the accomplish ments of the "Reformed Government" tinge its formation a year ago. yes {erday were Unrown {rom a Japanese aval plane which ow over various paris of the Settlement for nearly hour between 830 and 930 am Jyesterday. Chinese pedestrians, a tracted by the rain of multi-coloured leaflets made a mad scramble for them os, they were about to reach. the pavements but few actually read them Whilst. in Nanking Road and Avenue Edward Vit for instance, a umber of groups of Chinese, mainly fof the coolie class were seea standing {ogether whilst one of them read the contents of the leaflets aloud, 'The plane few at a very low at tude' and concentrated mainly on the central district although Bubbling Well Road as far es St. Georges wet Visited. on at. lest one occasion, {After having unloaded its entire cargo of propaganda, the plane disappeared the direction of Yangtszepoo, Thousands of five-barred flags bedecked the streets of Hongkew yes. terday in commemoration of the Ast anniversary of the establishment of the Reformed Government following he distribution of mare than 12,000 ensigns by the Chinese Young Men's Association, the "Shanghai Mainichi"
Shanghai, Apr. 3.
Apparently coming 10 the conclu. sion that the most effective method of putting an end to the widespread activities of guerilla bands in the Shanghai area is not by the open use of a ied force, the Japanese military authorities here have discovered fay. in which the. ranks of these Irregular solders, whose activi {her peat few months have caused many' losses among their ran thinned out actively" without Any undue. waste of ammunition oF ihe use of large armed forces, Proving the most effective of any policies "adopted by the Japanese military authorities. since the cam= paign against guerillas was instituted, the new method of attack consists of dressing Japanese soldiers in' the everyday garb of Chinese villagers, thus making it possible for them. mingle with the inhabitants of the many villages in the digtriet which fare infested with guerillas.
Confirmation of the adoption of this P new policy came on Saturday when two of these disguised soldiers, both riding bicycles, succeeded in arresting two guerillas whom they killed, Chinese lrcles yesterday admitted the the two men, who were knifed to death instead' of being shot, were Chin Shin-sen and: Chiang Shih-chi, both of them bel Leading members of the Young Men's Association grouped Usemselves Into ten parties and mede a house-o-house canvass In Hongkew, Civic Centre, Yenglszepco_and. Chapel, to fell the Reformed Government. fogs at one dollar each, the dally stated.
'A flag-raising "ceremony and a lecture on East Asia development were libeld tin the auditorium of the assoc tion on Wing Feng and North Szechuen' Road. Five-barred flags were Siso distributed by the Japanese Sidents" Corporation, expecially 0 apanese households in the Hongkew Four Injured by Japanese Sentry Shanghai, Mar. 31.
Four Chinese pedestrians were slightly injured at about 2 pin. yesterday, when a Japanese sentry on duty on Szechuen Road Bridge, fred shot at a Chinese of the coolie lass, -who apparently had disobeyed certain regulations. Two of the vie-tims took rickshaws to go to the Lester Chinese Hospital, where their wounds were treated, whilst the other two were picked up by the Japanese and conveyed to a hospital In Hongkew, with foot injuries.
'There are two versions to the affair. According to one source, the coolie was being searched by' the [sentry when, suddenly, ne pulled himself away and ran' down the bridge towards Soochow Road, whilst pother version has it that he failed to show his pass to the sentry and when ordered to halt, began run-hing down the bridge towards the Central district, In any case, the coolie in question managed lo escape.
In view of the heavy traffic, the report of the shot was heard by a few persons only. Detectives from Central police station were investigating the affair yesterday, whilst the' spokesman at the Japanese press conference said that he had heard nothing of the incident.
Chu, It was stated, was a branch commander and Chiang a private under him, On both "their persons the Japanese found documentary proofs that they were members of guerilla units,
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