The first hope o success, the "Tairiku Shimpo" said, came with the information that Major-Gen. Hsiung had secretly registered at a hotel in the French Concession and was attempting to purchase arms and ammunition. Plans were laid by the Japanese gendarmerie to lure him into the western district of Shanghai on March 8, the daily revealed.
However, Major-Gen. Hsiung, in order to foil any possible Japanese trap. started out to his destination on Brenan Road on March. 7, one day earlier than originally planned, according to the "Tairiku Shimpo."
Learning of this, Sergeant-Major Jura Sakamoto, and Sergeant Seijo Nakao, of the water police section of the J.G.H., defying danger, concealed themselves at the gangleader's destination.
At dusk, a slim, tall Chinese dressed in foreign clothes knocked at the front gate of the house where
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