Two Japanese Held by Consular Police Two Japanese civilians, dressed in military uniform, are now being held by the Japanese consular police on charges arising out of the serious wounding of a 25-year old Japanese waitress, employed at the Hat-sune Restaurant, 1931 North Szechuen Road, The two men are not connected with the Japanese Army in any way, it is understood, although they both wore military uniforms, The two men, Yano Orisaka, aged 26 years, and Kazue Minoshima, also 26 years of age, are said to have been drinking beer rather heavily with the waitresses and one of them drew his pistol, In, it is alleged, a drunken attempt at a joke, he pained his weapon at Asama Noda, one of the waitresses and pulled the trigger, To his horror, and that of his friend, who was trying to get him to put the weapon away, the pistol went off, Pierced by the' bullet, the girl, bleeding profusely, fell over him, drenching him with blood in a matter of moments, Noda was rushed to the Fooming Hospital, where she is now lying very seriously wounded. The two men were placed under arrest by Japanese consular policemen who
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