This was done, under extreme protest from the Japanese, who thereupon tried to get the British sergeant to go with him either to the Garden Bridge or into Hongkew—it is not quite certain which he intended. The sergeant refused to do so, and the gendarme, considerably excited by this time, twice caught hold of the sergeant by the arm and tried to drag him towards the bridge.
The British soldier resisted the attempts of his smaller adversary and the guard was turned out, with fixe: bayonets. After a few moments, reason prevailed and the Japanese retuned to the Garden Bridge.
Later in the morning, a British naval officer proceeded to make an official call on.the headquarters of the Japanese Naval Landing Party, where he was handed back the confiscated pass, It is understood that it reply to his question as to the reason for the gendarme having token the action he did, the Japanese reply was that the gendarme thought he saw a "case of ammuni~ tion" in the lorry.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.