Three Japanese on holiday were shot by an unidentified Chinese on Sunday afternoon in Nanking Road outside the Kwang Sen Yuan Cantonese Restaurant, near Fokien Road. The assailant escaped but not before e had been engaged by a Sikh Havildar of the Shanghai Municipal wolict, who fired four revolver shots st him, but missed. The Chinese gunman in turn fired two shots at the Indian, and also missed., The Kwang Sen Yuan Restaurant was the scene of a murder on February 7, when one Koo Ping-tsung, the holder of Japanese special passes, was shot through the back of the head while in the telephone booth of the establishment.
The three Japanese who were wounded on Sunday afternoon had just finished lunch at the Cantonese restaurant when, at 240 o'clock, they entered a hire-car outside the place. Before the driver could start the vehicle, however, a slight man in Chinese-style clothes stepped up to the car, produced a revolver and fired four shots point-blank into the vehicle.
Three of the four passengers were hit: Mr. Jiichi Koyanagi, Press Union photographer and official Japanese Army camera-man in the Hsuchow and Hankow campaigns; Mr. Kokura Sato, likewise employed by the Press Union agency; and Mis: Morioka, a companion. person in the car, another gi injury, as did the Chinese driver.
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