In Hungjao as Guerilias, Japanese Exchange Fire Mrs. G. V. Lumsdaine, British, living, at 79 Soochow Road, had a narrow escape from death shortly before 8 o'clock last night, when about 15 Japanese soldiers pursuing guerillas in the fields along Fraser Road rear the intersection of Chungshan Road, used the car which she was driving, as à shield and fired from behind it at some undistinguishable target in the dark.
"They fired whilst running across the street and at first ordered me to halt but when they saw that I was a foreigner, they did not insist and I sped to the Great Western Road as fast'as I could, not wishing to get into any trouble. Both my rear-tyres were punctured by Japanese bullets," Mrs. Lumsdaine told a "North-China Daily News" reporter, when she was interviewed late last night, "although none of the 20 shots which were fired whilst I was there, hit any other part of the car. A foreigner who was driving in the opposite direction at the time, slowed down but stepped on the accelerator when he saw what it was all about."
Asked whether she saw anybody firing at the Japanese soldiers, Mrs. Lumsdaine, who seemed none the worse for her experience, said that she had not.
"I just stepped on the gas and thought of nothing else until I was within the British defence sector. I left my car by the roadside and reported the matter to a British officer on duty there."
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