The Archive · 1940

Axotler Japanese Gendarme Shot in Hongkew

Area in Turmoil as Landing Party, Troops Search All Chinese; Japanese Suspected of Crime

NOIWTESTANDING all the precautions taken by the Japanese in the area north of the Sooghow Creek and the barricades they erected the whole length of North Kiangse Road a few days ago, another Japanese gendarme officer was wounded by an unidentified person in Haskell Road, hear Jukong Road, at about 10 am. yesterday. The assailant, beloved to be a Japanese, fired twice at his victim before making lis-escape.

The whole district, from Noth

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