UGLY SITUATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 7, 10 January 1938, Page 9

UGLY SITUATION

SHANGHAI INCIDENT

RUSSIANS & JAPANESE

AT HOLTS

A HEATED PARLEY

SHANGHAI, January 8.

An ugly situation developed in the International Settlement when a Russian volunteer policeman prevented a Japanese soldier on the edge of the French Concession from beating a Chinsse woman who, against the regulations, had gone to the French side of the road to draw water.

The Japanese knocked down the Russian and tried to wrest his rifle from him. The Russian retained his rifle and drew a revolver against the Japanese. Fifteen Japanese soldiers began to drag the Russian to the adjoining sector. Another Russian blew a police whistle. Two French armoured cars and a vanload of Russians took up positions facing 100 Japanese with machine-guns. A heated half-hour's parley ended in an undisclosed agreement, French and Japanese officers shaking hands. The Shanghai correspondent of the British United Press reports that the Municipal Council is protesting to the Japanese regarding the violation of foreign defence sectors.