Canton, July 21.
A Japanese soldier was seriously wounded when he was shot in the heart of the city by armed Chinese: last night, according to semi-official Japanese sources. An unusual sight was witnessed outside ' the bridges leading to Shameen this morning—presumábly corinected with the reported incident—as Japanese sentries minutely searched all Chinese leaving or entering Shameen. At least a 100 Chinese had queued up, waiting to enter Shameen. The searching of Chinese is also taking place at other sentry posts throughout Canton—Reuter.
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