Japanese Wounds Two Near Hsuchow Peiping, Oct. 30.
Two Canadian Jesuit missionaries have been shot, one seriously, by a Japanese sentry at Yaolou, ten miles south-west of Hsuchow, Kiangsu.
According to a Japanese army report, three men, dressed in Chinese clothes, passed in on bicycles late Saturday afternoon. He thought they were trying to escape him, and fired twice, wounding two, after which he discovered that they were Canadian missionaries.
The nomes of the wounded missionaries. are unknown. No version of the affair from the mission con-Serned is yet available.
A few weeks ago, it wil be recalled, the Japanese army arrested two Canadian missionaries of a Hsuchow mission (to which these three belong) and held them incommunicado for a considerable time.—Reuter. i Local Explanation Concerning the affair near Hsuchow fu on October 28 when two Canadian missionaries were shot by a Japanese army sentry, Major Nishihara, Shanghai Japanese army spokesman, stated at yesterday's press conference, that the sentry saw three persons in Chinese clothes riding bicycles, The trio attempted to cross the Japanese lines about 15 kin. from Hsuchowfu and, according to the spokesman, the sentry challenged them but they fled.
There was some distance between them, but the sentry stated that the distance was not so far but that the three men turned round and feeed him—indicating that they had heard his challenge—before they resumed flight.
The sentry opened fire and shot two of them. The third continued riding, tne sentry giving chase, and eventually he captured him.
Later, said the spokesman, it was learned that they were three Canadian members of @ Canadian Mission.
Continuing the spokesman added that bandits had been active in the area and employed bicycles to communicate among various bodies or as a means of transportation. Consequently sentries had been ordered to stop anyone on a bicycle and their being on bicycles caused greater suspicion to the sentry.
Investigations are continuing, concluded the spokesman, Admission.in Tokyo Tokyo, Oct. 30.
The Foreign Office Spokesman, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, admitted at his press conference this morning that two Canadian missionaries had been wounded by a Japanese sentry at Yaolou. near Hsuchow, on October 27.
One of the missionaries, he said was slightly wounded, but the other received a serious wound. Their names, he added, were not available.
—Reuter.
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