Each member of the gang is armed with a single hand grenade, and he is ordered to hurl this missile at Japanese troops from a vantage point in the Settlement or Concession. Frequent raids have been made by the police since the existence of this gang became known to them, and one raid on a house in the c ied out on one the rested, nearly rein and arrest. There while they were passing along the Soochow Creek, Before the Japanese occupation of the Shanghai area by the Japanese. the Creek had been under Chinese jurisdiction, and had been policed by the Customs River Police. The Japanese military authorities, therefore, might claim that they now exercised jurisdiction over the Creek, and that therefore they were entitled to take into custody anyone perpetrating an attack upon their boats passing along the were signs that the occupant of une of the rooms visited had made hurried departure only a short time before, and cooking fitensils were sound on the premises.
The gang has an ingenious method of operation. as it must have penetrated 90 li through the Japanese lines between Nanwei and Shangha before reaching the Settlement. It is thus evident that the S.M.P. cannot assume full responsibility for the existence of the gang in the Settlement. as the Japanese tree cupation of the area between Nanwei and Shanghai themselves permitted its 24 members to cover this distance before reaching the Settlement The official interviewed emphasized that the S.M.P. had an extremely difficult task in curbing the activities Of a gang such as the one, which has perpetrated two attacks within 24 hours upon Japanese troops passing along the Soochow Creek. The S.MP., he said, was doing all that y within its power to round up suspicious characters, and seize stores of arms and ammunition, and raids ried out during the last few weeks The official interview made it clear that it would only be in incidents of this particular character. involving an area formerly under Chinese control, but now presumably under anese jurisdiction, that such a rul e would apply. He hinted that in future attacks of a similar nature, the culprits if and when arrested would be handed over to the Japanese authorities for punishment. If such incidents took place within the Settlement. however, those arrested would not be handed over, but would be taken into custody by the Shanghat Municipal Police, In the case of the Chinese handed over to the Japanese yesterday by the S.M.P,, it was emphasized that the man was not a resident of Shanghai, and therefore could not lay the same claim to protection by ihe Settlement authorities as a resident of the Settlement could. If he chose to enter the Settlement and create an incident on the Soochow Creek, presumably now under Japanese jurisdiction, the S.M.P, had every right to hand him over to the Japanese. authorities
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