Virtual Martial Law In Shanghai Settlement
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JAPANESE OFFICER Received Tuesday, 12.16 a.m. SHANGHAI, Sept. 30. Virtual martial law has been proclaimde in Hongkew, the Japanese occupied portion of the International Settlement, following an attempt by a Chinese gunman to assassinate a Japanese military officer, who is reported to have been seriously injured when shot. The Japanese have increased their military street patrols in Hongkew and intensified the searching of all ingoing and outgoing persons. A later message says the Japanese have blocked all the exits to the Japanese-controlled area north of Boochow Creek leading to the International Settlement. They have not permitted any Chinese to cross the bridges after a Japanese, believed to be an army officer, was shot north of the Szechwan Road, the main thoroughfare to Hong kew.
Troops have cordoned a huge area and are conducting house-to-house searches, creating panic among the Chinese duo to the fear of possible reprisals. It is reliably stated that another Japanese, believed to be a naval commander, wan fatally shot in another section of Japanese-controlled Hongkew.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 232, 1 October 1940, Page 7
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