793.94/11423: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 3—6 a.m.]
1074. At about 1 o’clock today when the Japanese forces were carrying out their ill-advised military parade through the Settlement a hand grenade was thrown by a Chinese on Nanking Road. It is reported that one Japanese soldier, one Japanese civilian and two [Page 750] Shanghai municipal policemen were wounded and that the thrower of the hand grenade was shot and killed by the police. The parade continued and has now cleared Nanking Road and the Bund.
Sent to the Department, Tokyo, Nanking, Hankow, and Peiping.