Police, Basile Oulibine, was fatally injured at 830- o'clock yesterday morning on the French Bund when he was thrown from a. Japanese Army lorry and against an electric dard ai the kerb. His collarbone was broken and he suffered various bruises, although it is believed he was spared' internal injuries. He was picked up from the pavement and ken, in a Concession ambulance, to ie Hospital. His rife was smashed in the violent crash. The car from which he was hurled was slightly damaged. He died late last night from his injuries The accident occurred while Oulibine was accompanying a convoy of Japanese Army cars bound from Nantao to Hongkew. It was brought about by a collision between the car he was accompanying and the one immediately in front of it. The contact of a protruding box with a light-pole was the direct cause of the Russian policeman being thrown from the second truck. The place of the mishap was opposite No. 7 the French Bund. A The French Police took charge of the situation and halted the convoy. They took statements from the drivers and other witnesses before the convoy was allowed to proceed. It is understood that the Japanese authori-so conducting an in-igation w ith a view to determine the responsibility for the accident.
Traffic on the French Bund was again normal half and hour after the crash, and Japanese military convoys holding the proper passes were permitted to use the road under the supervision of the French Police.
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