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Show lFfcllSaKliiMlPSIf3lBBilf SEIZURE OF FOREIGN SECTORINSHANGHAI CREATESNEV CRISIS Riots Break Out as Chinese Sympathizer Hurls Bomb at 'Victory March' by Nippon War Machine SHANGHAI, Dec. 3 (INS) Japan! military machlna pitulated to blunt-speaking, 58-year-old colonel of tha U. S. marines, after Nipponese troops had seized sections of the In ternational Settlement durinf rioting which brokt out today during the Japanese "victory march." . "If the Japanese want trouble, they have only ta start here and they'll get It right away. This was the ultimatum snapped by Colonel Charles F. Price, U. B. marine commander, when Japanese threw up barricades la Bubbling Well road at tha corner of Myburgh road in the American defense sector sec-tor of the settlement. Colonel Price's demand that the barricades be removed Immediately Immediate-ly and Japanese troops withdrawn was obeyed. Horeaa Hurls Bomb The Incident Involving the marines ma-rines waa a result at a bombing by a Korean revolutionary of the Jap-anese Jap-anese "victory parade" through the settlement, plunging Shanghai Into wild terror. The. blast, which disrupted the parade and caused utter confusion in Nanking road, where the bomb was thrown, led to a aeriea of fantastic fan-tastic incidents which may produce the moat dangerous International repercussions yet bora of th Sine-Japanese Sine-Japanese war. Authorities said the grenade was tossed at the marching Japanese by a Korean revolutionary. The man waa immediately shot, and at first was reported dead, but later waa reported "still breathing." Estimates of the casualties resulting result-ing from the affair differed considerably. consid-erably. The official Japanese estimate esti-mate stated one Nipponese private was seriously wounded, two slightly injured and a Japanese consular policeman critically hurt. Casualty Reports Vary But other reports stated that, In addition to the three wounded Japanese Jap-anese soldiers and the dead or dying Korean, the casualties included a Sikh policeman, three Japanese civilians and a British lawyer who broke a Japanese flag over his knee. J. McPhee, a British sub-inspector sub-inspector of the settlement police force, also was slightly Injured by the bursting grenade. The explosion of the grenade came as the Japanese, obviously jittery jit-tery and disliking their "victory parade" pa-rade" assignment, marched grimly under the scowling eyes of 1.000.000 sullen Chinese sharply watched by authorities in an effort to prevent the outbreak everyone, Japanese, Chinese and foreigners, feared. As the blast detonated through the settlement, the Japanese troops scattered as if a fleet of war planes had rained bombs on them. Japanese Setae Sector Then, with fixed bayonets and the fire of battle in their eyes, they deployed through the settlement, adding to the terror of Chinese war refugees and foreigners. Immediately a Chinese Constable who was near the scene drew a gun ICopnmiao on faff Four) I Column Kourl 'MARINE ORDER -HILTS-JAPAN fContlnu.il from Psf On and shot the bomb thrower. The latter fell to the ground and at first was reported dead. Thereafter the Korean was variously vari-ously reported dead and alive and dying, and the general relief was that he had finally succumbed. . Amid ih rnnfnsinn, the I.pn... high command got busy. Almost before be-fore anyone knew exactly what had happened. It was found Jhat Japa-tnese Japa-tnese troops had thrown a cordon laround a square mile of territory iin the settlement in the vicinity of the Sincere department store and had ejected all foreigners from the streets except police. Mount Machine Guns The Japanese mounted machine guns at strategic points, while infantrymen, in-fantrymen, menacingly brandishing their bayonets, patrolled the streets. The result was mounting wrath among all foreigners. British. Americans Amer-icans and others, who showed angry an-gry resentment at the actions of the Japanese. A British lawyer, E. T. Maitland. had a Japanese flag thrust at him by a Japanese. In a race. Malt- land snatched the flag and broke .it over his knee. In a battle with a group of Japanese Japa-nese civilians at the corner of Nanking Nan-king and Szechuen roads. He was beaten badly before he was "res-i "res-i cued" and arrested by Japanese police. The banners flaunted by the Japanese Jap-anese civilians read: "The glorious might of, the imperial im-perial army!" i American Hits Japan i Illustrative of the rising anger among foreigners was the reaction of a bespectacled 7S-year-old American, Amer-ican, Vaughan Reed. When he objected in emphatic terms to being be-ing "pushed around" and shoved back by Japanese soldiers, he was' struck in the face. His nose began to bleed. The American immediately put up a fight and struck two Japanese officers, but other foreigners persuaded per-suaded him to retire to avoid a serious se-rious incident. But perhaps the most bizarre of all incidenta that accompanied the parade which foreign authorities vainly attempted to forestall was the spectacular "patriotic suicide"! of a Chinese civilian. I In full view of the paraders. and just as the procession turned Into' Tibet road from Avenue Edward VII, the Chinese dived from the roof of the Chinese amusement building, shouting: "Long live the Chines republic!" repub-lic!" I'nder Martial Law Late today, long after the explosion ex-plosion occurred, Nanking road in the Settlement was virtually under un-der martial law. Japanese authorities author-ities kept pouring more troops into this sons as the hours wore on and high Settlement and police officials, of-ficials, Japanese officers and mem-, mem-, bers of embassy staffs conferred In the streets. The Japanese flag-breaking affair, af-fair, as much as the bombing, seemed to be responsible for the growing tension between Japanese and foreigners. To show their authority, the Nipponese troops kept "taking over" more and more of Nanking road, and, British sources reported, began to "knock foreigners about and halt police and British army trucks." Marina Defies Japaa Japanese troops forming the cordon cor-don around the Settlement district 'in which the incident took place refused to let anyone except their own officials pass. An American marine, however, dealt with this situation in typical Yankee fashion. The marine, a motorcycle mo-torcycle dispatch rider, arrived on the scene and was informed the area had been blockaded. TIs reaction was quick and succinct. suc-cinct. "To hell with the Japanese," he grunted. Then, before the startled men of the rising sun could put a finger on him he threw his machine into gear and shot through the cordon, under the bayonet. British Break Line Witnessing this exploit. Brigadier Briga-dier General Telfer-Smollett, British Brit-ish garrison commander, approached ap-proached the Japanese and told them who he was. He was allowed al-lowed to pass. A few minutes later 80 British soldiers passed through the Japanese line and strode up Chekiang road. |