Somewhat disturbed she took it from her mouth and somewhat angrily threw itat his feet. The sentry thereupon caught her a stinging slap across the face. -She angrily demanded if he knew who she was} and told him her identity. The sentry gave her another on the other side of the face and quite a commotion was caused.
Not unnaturally there were a number of eye-witnesses, it being a railway station, and among them were several Chinese journalists and some Chinese officials, The story was freely talked about and in Provisional Government circles it was a topic of conversation for some days. Several correspondents used the story for, after all, a Japanese sentry slapping ju public the wife of a Japanese appointed high official was a tit-bit in its way.
The Japanese authorities were probably annoyed with the sentry but definitely they were annoyed by the publicity. But their feelings appear to have centred on one correspondent, a Briton. He was solemnly invited to an interview at which two Japanese officers and other officials were present, He was first asked to reveal the source of his eye-witness story which of course he refused to do.
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