MARTIAL LAW IN HANKOW
JAPANESE POLICEMAN MURDERED
TROOPS CLASH NEAR PEIPING
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) Shanghai, Sept 19. Following the murder of a Japanese policeman named Yoshioka by an unknown person who fired point-blank and escaped in a lorry, martial law has been proclaimed in the Japanese concession of Hankow and the neighbouring concession, under Chinese control and formerly under German. Colonel Ryoi, a Korean attached to the Manchukuo Army, alleges that a Chinese attacked him on a train bound for Hankow and robbed him of £216.
Fighting, including the firing of shots, occurred between Chinese and Japanese soldiers at Fengtai, about 15 miles south-west of Peiping. It is stated that Chinese guards made insulting gestures as Japanese troops were passing the Chinese barracks. The situation is tense.
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Southland Times, Issue 23000, 21 September 1936, Page 7
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