Evening star., 1937-12-03
BY JAMES A. MILLS.

Associated Press staff Correspondent.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 3.-Japanese
troops bowed to the United States ma
rine command today and withdrew
from American guarded sections OF
the International Settlement after a
grenade explosion had interrupted a
victory march celebrating Japanese
domination of Shanghai.
A Chinese student hurled the hand
grenade and momentarily broke ranks
of the 5000 marching Japanese as they
neared the Wing On department store
In Nanking road, but the parade was
reformed and the troops completed
transfer from JeSsfield Park on the
west to Hongkew, japanese sector east
Of the settlement.
Immediately after the explosion
japanese troops, with cleaning bayo-
nets. surrounded and cleared an area
of some 80 blocks around the scene
Because portion of the American ma
rines' sector was included a vigorous
American protest came Immediately.
The japanese yielded and withdrew
from that section.
The grenade thrower was shot dead
on the spot by Chinese policeman,
member of the Settlements force.
Japanese Soldiers Wounded.
Three Japanese soldiers, one Japa-
nese consular policeman and a Brit
tsh police inspector were wounded.
Amid furry of panic. a Chinese
threw himself from tall building
into the street in patriotic martyr
dom.
The Japanese withdrew from the
American section of the British
American guarded International City
at the insistence of Col. Charles F. B.
Price. commander of the United States
4th Marines.
His action possibly prevented dis
aster, for the parade had been held
over protests of American and other
oficials and there was tension in the
Settlement.
stood within short distance of
the explosion. The japanese troops,
conveyed by tanks and with airplanes
overhead, broke for shelter.
Gaining sidewalks, excitedly they
peered at upper stories of buildings
on both sides of the street as if ex-
pecting further volleys.
thousands of japanese civilians
lined the streets, waving flags, display
Ing banners and shouting "Banzai"-
hooray!
The cries turned to screams as the
grenade burst.
Chinese and japanese alike scat
tered.
Falls Into Wire Barricade.
Hardly had the excitement begun
to subside when the patriotic Chinese
hurled himself into the street near
me. falling in mangled pulp into a
barbed-wire barricade.
Then a British lawyer, E. T. Matt
land. formerly advocate of the Shang-
hal municipal police, added to the
tension by breaking the staff of a
Japanese flag across his knee.
japanese troops, he said, molested
him. British police took him under
guard
An American business man, Vaughan
Read, was injured in the face by a
group of japanese officers. They
punched him because he refused to
move.
L was walking peacefully along like
a laW-abiding, self-respecting Ameri-
can, with certain rights" Mr.. Read
said, when a japanese officer, shout
ing Get out! poked rue in the back
Wen. nobody is going to handle me
like that. so I hauled OF and socked
him in the mouth.
He went down for the count. Then
another oficer tackled me and I hit
him on the nose. Then they all
pounded me on the head and struck
my eyeglasses, but 1t didn't hurt me i"
Mr.. Read said there we're eight SOL
diers in the group.
Entire City Tense.
The entire city was dangerously
tense tonight.
During an impromptu conference
outside the department store where
the bombing occurred, a representa-
tive of Gen. Iwane Matsui, japanese
commander at Shanghai, and Police
Commissioner r. W. Gerard agreed
to the terms of settlement of the in
cident.
All japanese troops and gendarmes
were withdrawn from the department
EtnrN district and the Chorrt.n
(See MARINES, Page A-4.)
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