Shanghai, Mar. 15.
'A motorcar driven by' a Japanese [seriously injured five Chinese pedestrians in a freak accident which occurred shortly after 180 pin. yesterday' on Kashing Road near the intersection of Dixwell Road, and emergency ambulances which had been summoned by ae. P. C. on duty near by, were prevented from conveying the victims to a hospital, the Japanese insisting that they had to be taken to the Japanese Marine Hospital on Kiangwan Road in a military truck, The. car, which was _occupled bby five or six Japanese passengers, was said to have overtaken a truck and, finding his view obstructed, the driver applied the brakes, whereupon the ear swerved and came on to the sidewalk on the east side of Elgar Road where the Chinese victims were walking at the time.
Officers from Kashing Road police station were investigating the lent.
Tt could not be Jearned up to a late hour yesterday evening, to what Chinese public bodies Shanghai were reported last night by Chinese evening papers here to have jointly sent 4 petition to Dr, Wang Chung-hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Chungking, asking him to make representations to the Powers concerned against the Permission allowing Japanese military to make arrests in the Settlement and also against the taking down of Chinese national flags in the French Concession on March 12 when the Chinese here commemorated the 14th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Dr. Wang was asked to order Chinese Ambassadors in foreign countries concerned to make protests, The news appeared in all Chinese language evening Papers in Shanghai, but no names of Chinese public bodies were published, new arrivals, who had not been Properly equipped by the Japanese, apparently in fear lest they. might turn against their' sponsors. No official details of the losses suffered by the new regime forces could be obtained yesterday.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.