The Archive · 1938

JAPANESE MILITARY "HIT-RUN" CAR

Passos Over Coolie on Bund and Fails to Stop In the presence of scores of {01 eigners and Chinese, a Japanese military motor-car Knocked down and iously injured a coolie on The Bund on January 21 and then continued on at high speed:

'The accident occurred ut about 245 am, near the foot of Foochow 'The Chinese' was necomponica by his foreign employer, who however managed to avoid being struck. The coolie was knocked down and the wheels of the cor passed over his body. The vehicle, driven by a. Japanese in army uniform and with several other Japanese army men as passengers, simply continued along its course and although members of the Settlement Police called to the driven to stop he paid no attention to them, The car vanished in a northerly direction at high speed.

When the coolie was picked up by a Fire Brigade ambulance crew and taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital, it was found that his pelvis had been fractured. His condition is serious.

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