Seriously endangering a working party of the Durham Light Infantry and two British sentries, a Japanese sentry fired at and fatally wounded a Chinese in Keswick Road, within the British area, yesterday afternoon, At about 3 o'clock, the British post at the Great Western Road railway crossing observed a Chinese coming through the barbed wire, 200 yards along Keswick Road from the post. Two British sentries immediately went down the road towards the Chinese.
'A Japanese sentry on the other side of the perimeter ran down the railway and when he was within fifty ards of the Chinese, who by this ime had reached the middle of Keswick Road, within the perimeter, knelt down and fired at him causing a fatal Wound.
At the time, the two British sen-(ries were within ten yards of the Chinese, while on the road there was a party of the Durham Light Infantry doing digging work under an officer at a spot where they might have been injured by any bullet fired by the Japanese sentry.
The gate across the railway crossing was immediately closed by the British troops, despite the Japanese objections, and the Chinese was takei off to hospital, where he died at 6
Both British Army officers) and officers of the Settlement police visited the scene soon after the shooting, and the gate was soon reopened.
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