Meanwhile, Chinese reports which could not ilirmed declared thata certain arrival from Soochow stated that on the eve of the Double Tenth Anniversary, a plain-clothes Japanese gendarme, on. patrol duty at Chang Meng. Gate, Soochow, was shot by four men and wounded.
Upon receipt, of the report, a large. party. of Japanese soldiers rushed fo the scene and special Martial Taw was declared. About 11000 pedestrians were forced into the Tung Woo Theatre where they were detained and searched.
Precautionary measures were also adopted on other streets and the city gates were closed. The trains ©f. the Shanghai-Nanking Railway la not stop at the Soochow Station. Those precautions continued for two days and the 1,000 detained Chinese were unable to got food or water and suffered terribly. It was. said {hat the wounded Japanese died the next day, the Chinese reports concluded.
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