At this time there were a number of soldiers, all on leave and unarmed, in the Busy Bee Bar. About a quarter of an hour later two unarmed who had been having supper by cafe started to return to ks. They were at once obfructed and assaulted by Shanghai cial City Government Police who were waiting outside. These two men managed to break away and reach the guard at Ash Camp. They were fired upon by a number of Shanghai Special City Government Police but fortunately escaped jury.
On hearing the firing the party of armed soldiers in the Busy Bee r came out to Great Western Road to investigate; on emerging from the door they were fired upon from three directions, one bullet actually striking the doorstep. The men immediately took cover since, being unarmed, they were in no position to defend themselves against uncontrolled and indiscriminate shooting. Cne soldier and a civilian took cover in the cafe, These two were subsequently arrested and roughly handled by the Shanghai Special City Government Police. Their release was effected at 1 am.
'The Shanghai Special City Government account of this affair, as appearing in a Japanese paper,' states that the soldier who committed the assault spoke in "fluent Peking dialect." The paper has given the name of a soldier who had arrived in Shanghai anys three days before, and his total service in China is one month spent in Hongkong,
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