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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21807, 12 June 1936, Page 11

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# SHOOTING OF OFFICER IN PEIPING DELICATE SITUATION REPORTED LONDON, June 10. The “Sun-Herald” News Service says that through a delicate AngloJapanese situation developing as the outcome of the shooting of a Japanese soldier at Peiping, Britain’s Military Court is being convened again. The Japanese have declared that they are dissatisfied with the British enquiry, which has not tallied with the evidence at their enquiry. The secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Peiping has communicated to. Britain copies of Japanese testimonies taken from bar tenders and tea house waitresses, all of whom are of Japanese or Korean nationality. The British Court will examine these witnesses. The position is further complicated by Major-General Matsumuro, the Japanese political agent for North China, declaring that if Britain persisted in her “insincerity,” the Japanese might be compelled to consider special measures. British circles regard such a statement from such a responsible authority as deplorable. The Japanese Government has not associated itself with this statement, but. nevertheless, it has not attempted to repudiate it, and it is likewise silent regarding statements from the more extreme elements who are threatening direct action. [The Japanese authorities demanded that the British Embassy investigate the death of a Japanese army officer outside a Peiping cabaret. The allegation was that the officer was kilted in a fight with British soldiers from the legation guard, “who were concerned in a series of assaults on Japanese subjects at bars and cabarets, injuring four men and a woman.” The Bfitish enquiry disclosed that no member of the guard was in the part of Peiping where the affray occurred. A piece of webbing believed to belong to a British uniform, and found near the scene, was proved to be of a type not worn by the British guard,]