Yet another Japanese was shot by a Chinese terrorist, this time a gendarme in Nantao' at about 10.30 am, yesterday, Taken to a Japanese military hospital in Nantao, the victim was pronounced dead. All the gates, leading to the French Concession were immediately closed by the authorities and strict searches, conducted by the Japanese near the scene of crime, were said to have resulted in the arrest of several Chinese. They were taken to gendarmerie headquarters for questioning, According to meagre information available, the gendarme was on duty on Boulevard des Deux Republiques when he was shot by an unidentified gunman or gunmen, The victim, said to be Private Kadashima Kikuchi, slumped to the ground, while the' assassin, taking advantage of the commotion created, took to flight and disappeared, All traffic in the area was immediately suspended and all the authorities, who made house to house searches in the vicinity of the scene of crime, The Chinese suspects, the exact number of whom could not be ascertained yesterday, were rounded up and taken to Japanese headquarters.
It was believed that about five shots were fired at the victim, but it was not known how many' took The assassination brought the number of Japanese victims of Chinese terrorists to well above twenty since last September.
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