Wounded; panese Couple Killed Shanghai, Nov. 6.
PANDEMONIUM reigned north of the Creek yesterday afternoon following the attempted asas ination of accountant Lieut. Hsiao nakamura, a young pay mast in the Japanese army of occupation aged #0, who was conveyed to hospital in a critical condition after being shot on North Kiangse Road near Haining Road.
The West Hongkew and Hongkew districts were thrown into uproar following the shooting and for more than two hours a strict search. the most rigid enforced in recent months, was made by the Japanese naval landing party of all pedestrians entering and leaving Hongkew.
All pedestrians and vehicular traffic were stopped on the main roads include ug Broadway, East Seward Road, Tongshan Road and East Yuhang Road and all Chinese were sub-Jected to a thorough search for concealed weapons.
The scrutiny of pedestrians negotiating the bridges spanning the Creek was more intense than at other points. Tramie North of the Creek was suspended for a consider ble time as ussengers of rickshaws, buses "and even. private cars ordered to alight white the made a systematic search "of Vehieles, 'A police cordon was thrown round the West Hongkew district and on the nent side of the Garden Bridge rechuen. Ton Tarldge, officers the Settlement. police and the Feserve unit searched all Chinese pedestrians. According to Japanese Sources, it was not conceivable. that -perassussin could have for district north of the it was thought that it would only be w matter of time before ho was apprehended.
Terrorists Blamed According to a Japanese source the crime. was ascribed to terrorist a tivities, At about 4 pam. the ofoer. In uniform, was walking along North Kiangse Road, When near Haining Road severa} shots were fired at him a hidden gunman, who. with soverat confederates, were waiting in fan alleyway nearby. The young Lieutenant. who was recently mobilized," was hit la the back and slumped to the pavement while his assailant, "and. underlings" escaped among the crowd of Chinese who othered, "The sound of the shooting brought to scene several members of the Japanese Naval Landing Party, who transported the victim fo the Naval Landing Parly Hospital in a military ambulance. At a Tute hour last night it-was Tenmmed that the vielim was ULT in a serious condition.
Volice of the Settlement ce-operated with the Japanese authorities In an attempt (o bring the assailant, justice and detectives of the West Hongkew station also. carried out me vestigations in their ores. panese Cordon Japanese gendarmes and blue inchers ihrese a cordon, around the mone, crossing the Chapei and Hrongkow aren snd searched alt per
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According to a Japanese milita are taking a serious view of the crime as the shooting marked the second tempt li) recent months to ambush uniformed Japanese military olfleces in Hongkew district and it w il be reesled that Major Toshe was shot and killed—while North Svechuen Toad
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