Approximately at 9 p.m, an East Surrey. man who had been colebrating, Is said to have beer involved in a light with n "Municipality" potice-man in the course of which the latter received a laceration of the forehead. Tt has been definitely established that the soldier concerned was not the Pte, Peel who was forcibly seized by th Munlefpality" police more than an hour later, and that neither Peel nor the young British eivitian who was "arrested" with him had had any connection with the original row, cipality" police carrying rides and loc Some site an of the "Special Mun by-an officer (Chinese) who wielded 8 Mauser pistol, after the shooting outside the Busy Bee Cafe, went to, Jackie's Fish and Chip Shop next oer, smashed the door, threatened the Danish proprietor with a Mauser, and searched the rooms on the ground Japanese Give Version 'The Japanese Embassy spokesman' fat the press conference "yesterday evening said that the version of the Incident which appeared inthe' "North-China Daily News" yesterday was Incorreet and that the actual facts were contrary "to the report feiven by this Journal, "According the spokesman, three British: soldiers and "one. civilian approached Patrol of "Special Municipality" police at 9.30 p.m, on Sunday, One of the soldiers: went up to a police man and said he wanted the policcman's rifle, The group appeared to bbe under the Influence of liquor, When the policeman refused to' give up his weapon, the spokesman continued, the British soldier seized the rifle ud in the ensuing struggle the rifle fell on the ground and was discharged, The two. companions of the policeman fired in the air and the three British soldiers and the civilian began to run away, During the "chase. one soldier and the civilian fled into a cafe.
'The "Special Municipality" potice then turned out a squad and' sur rounded the cafe, according to the spokesman, The police entered the premises, and apprehended the two men, neither of whom they ascertained, "was the individual who hod approached the policeman with the request to play with his rifle, At 1 fand first floors. It was these men who found and seized Pte, Peel and the other Briton and marched them off to 13 Jessfeld Road.
Negotlate for Men's Release 'As was further stated in the "North-China Daily News." the two Britons were kept in custody at 13 Jessfield Road until 1 a.m, R. Hunt, British Liaison Officer' with the Japanese "Forces; and Mr. i. W Yorke, Assistant Commissioner of Police, conferred with Chinese and Japanese officials. While this conference was in progress sixteen members of the East Surrey Regiment, in steel! helmets and holding rifles with Bayonets fixed, stood guard outside 13 Jessfield Toad under the command of @ lieutenant, Drawn up opposite the gate was a military lorry mounted with a Bren machine-gun, trained on the entrance."
'Throughout the long vigil, a sta wart member of the British resiment id yeoman service directing the constant flow' of traMe along. Jessfield Road, while the "Special Municipal-Hy" nen kept, for once, in the back-round.
Lieut-Col_G, B. Swinton. _commanding the 2nd Balt. The East Surrey New Commander Vislts $.M.C. Chairman Rear-Admtral S Porty in Shanghai, who arrived here Mr. C, S, Franklin, Chairman of 1
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