Claiming that he had been shot by men who appeared to be Japanese soldiers or sailors in a fit of pique, an elderly Chinese farmer arrived in Shanghai yesterday with bullet wounds in the stomach and arm. The farmer was a native of Tsungming Island, where he had a small plot of land.
Immediately on his arrival in Shanghai yesterday by a "pig-boat," the farmer had himself taken to West Hongkew Police Station, where a nephew is a Chinese police constable. He was quickly removed to the Red Cross Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance, his wounds being found to be serious but not likely to prove fatal.
He said that some "Japanese military men"—either soldiers or sailors, he is not.sure— entered his house and demanded money; when he told them he had none, he says, they shot him and then left.
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