Shanghai, Oct. 2.
It happened on one of the western "outside roads" yesterday morning. A small Indian boy on a bicycle was passing a sentry post manned by a Chinese of the so-called Special Municipality police. As he was a few fect from the sentry a satchel attached to the bicycle started coming loose and the boy halted and alighted. This angered the sentry, who seized the child. The boy remonstrated explaining that all he wanted to do was to make the satchel fast.
The outcome of the affair was that the boy was taken to the nearest Special. Municipal ity police sub-station for interrogation, As he speaks some Japanese and Northern Chinese there was no question of "Language difficulty." After awhile he was released again, unharmed, the honour of the "pad-lands" having apparent ly been satisfied by the proper "explanations Gen. Nishio Flies to Nanking Shanghai, Oct, 1.
Gen, Toshizo Nishio, first to assume the newly-created post of commander.in-chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Fores to' China, accompanied by his chief of stof, Lieut. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, form-nese Minister of War, left
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