At Sun Ya's interested diners watched the scene from. first arid second storey windows, while a huge Jerowd of curious Chinese gathered fat Chekiang Road crossing to look at the proceedings from a distance.
'Japanese photographers wore po mitted by the Japanese military to) {ike flashlight pictures, and a stccession of bright blazes' marked their work. Groups of the Japanese of dals posed for special views.
Early this morning the negotiations about the ease were continued at Louza Police Station, where high foreign oMeials of the 'S.M.P. conferred with the Japanese officers. No arrest had' been made up to midnight, May 3.
About twenty members of the ist Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, in full campaign equipment, including steel helmets, were posted in Nanking Road and side-steels in the vicinity of Sunday's (May 1) mysterious bomb-throwing, at noon yesertday. Some of the British soldiers took up positions outside the Sun Ya Restaur-fant near where Japanese Military Police were already posted, with fixed bayonets The Japanese sentries withdrew from Nanking Road at about 1.30 pin, ut some of their number remained Jin the district throughout the after-oon partly at the Louza Police Station and partly as members of search parties which, est Settlement Police, search of Chinese alleyways and lodginghouses in the area. The British sentries left the area at about 630 pu. aya result of an agreement with the Japanese authorities.
"Japanese military police, consisting of four men in plain-clothes and one man in uniform, who continued their Jsearch of pedestrians in Louza District 'a9 pin. were finally withdrawn at 1030 pin. As in the afternoon, the porty was escorted by Louzn Police, No one had been arrested at a late hour last night, the bomb-thrower, whoever he was, having escaped immediately after the crime on Sunday afternoon, His objective had not been determined but it was generally doubted that the outrage had any-hing to do. with a Japenese naval truck which was passing near the opposite kerb at the time,
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