A formal protest was sent to Mr, Y. Miura, Japanese Consul-General, yes terday by Mr. Paul Scheel, Danish Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General, Over the detention and maltreatment last Sunday of Police Probationary Sergeant Jan Oksby Egeberg, a Danish subject.
Sergeant Egeberg, after the incident, was summoned to the Danish Consular Court to give testimony regarding what transpired at the intersection of Robison Road and Penang Road last Sunday morning when he was in charge of a Police search party. The party was assaulted by members of the "Special Municipality" police, who beat Egeberg with the butts of their rifles, According to S.M.P. reports, they also fired several shots from rifles and pistols, none of which however took effect.
After the clash, Sergeant Egeberg, two Chinese constables and a woman searcher were "arrested" by Japanese gendarmes. Egeberg and the woman were detained for five hours, and the two Chinese constables are still being held. The Japanese authorities did not notify the Danish Consul-General that they were detaining Egeberg, and it was not until he was informed by the Settlement Police that Mr. Scheel was able to make representations to ithe Japanese authorities, The Danish police sergeant, with the other "prisoners," was held incommunicado first at the Japanese Gendarmerie substation in Robison Road and later in the Gendarmeries' western headquarters, 94 Jessfield Road.
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