Men Responsible; Consul Deplores Such Acts Moving swiftly to remove any misunderstanding which might have arisen, the Japanese Consulate-General, in a statement at 7 o'clock la night, announced that the two Japanese who attern d to set fire to the matshed at the Shanghai Race Course early on Monday morning have been apprehended and are now undergoing rigid investigation, Matsunosuke Morianaga, 40-year old unemployed, and Moriaki Kuba, 22-year old employee of the Kokusat Un; Kaisha, a transfer company, an abortive attempt to burn shed at the Race Cour: where the Special Meeting of Ratepayers is due to reconvene this afternoon fled to the Western District at the entrance of which they were stopped and held by Japanese military sentries.
According to the Consulate-General's announcement, the two men were detained by the sentries and later taken to the Gendarmerie headquarters of the Western District for questi ing, The same afternoon, Morinaga and Kuba re turned over to the Japanese Consular Police.
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