The gunfire, which had been going on most of the night, did not stop until dawn, when a crowd of journalists and spectators had already gathered outside the Japanese community, but they were all stopped outside the cordon by the police, who were trying to maintain order.
Mr. Mayor of São Paulo and part of the government also arrived at the area of the incident early in the morning, and Mr. Mayor Merketi Scalia instructed his staff around him to calm down the citizens and journalists while rushing towards the scene of the incident.
Mayor Scalia was very angry that the police had not checked in with the city at all before taking action, and it was only in the morning when he was awakened from his bed by his secretary that he learned that the Japanese-American community was surrounded by the police and an operation had been launched, with gunshots ringing out in the middle of the night. And he was completely unaware of what was happening, which made him so angry that he didn't even go back to work at city hall, but came to the scene in the first place in a huff, wanting to question the police chief about what was going on.
When came to the scene to see the bodies all over the ground is even more shocked, especially to see a lot of police officers dead and wounded, is even more heart-breaking. Seeing the police chief Hodges and a group of police officers are gathered around a living room, directly barged in and said: "Hodges, what the hell are you doing, why did you suddenly launch an attack on the Japanese community, you police now carry out such a big action are no longer need to inform the city government? Don't forget, I appointed you as chief."
Chief Hodges, who was checking the information stolen by the Japanese with the police officers, was startled when he heard the sound of shouting and cursing coming from behind him. Turning his head to see that it was Mayor Scalia, he hurriedly went up to a salute, after all, this is his own top boss, he is also his appointed police chief, this time, he is really in a hurry and did not do a good job of communicating. Hurriedly said:
"Mr. Mayor, this time the matter is really urgent time did not come in a hurry, I was prepared to deal with it last night and then go to explain the situation to you early this morning, but it turned out that things went wrong and the original plan was all messed up. Please come this way, I'll explain to you." Said Mr. Mayor, guiding him to a pile of evidence.
Mayor Scalia, hearing Chief Hodges' words the fire in his heart could only be suppressed for the time being, following him to the table, only to see a lot of things on the table top, radio stations, documents, some of which had been partially burned.
"Last night Captain Blackwell of the Garrison came over to me and said that an Expeditionary Force war hero had returned to our St. Paul yesterday, and that when he went to pick him up he heard him say that he suspected that the Black Dragons, a gangster organization in the Japanese community, might be engaged in espionage, and that their Garrison would have liked to take action. But, considering that St. Paul belongs to my jurisdiction, they couldn't take direct action without going through me, so they came over to air it out with me. But it was already very late at that time, Mr. Captain and I, in order to avoid a long night, it was too late to notify you, but could only directly arrange for manpower, and began to take action against these little Japanese. As a result, it was unexpected that these Axis bastards had spies in our police station as well, allowing them to discover our actions in advance, and the sneak attack that they had been preparing for turned into a strong attack, thus, causing a large number of casualties among our personnel. It also allowed the two ringleaders to escape. I'm really very sorry, please chastise me!"
Chief Hodges' gave Mayor Scalia a detailed report of what had happened. It just turned the matter of trying to find justice for the combat heroes into the combat heroes suspecting the Japanese of spying.
Mayor Scalia was very shocked when he heard, "These Japanese are spying in our Brazil, do you have any evidence? The size of the Japanese population in Sao Paulo is not small, you do not have the actual evidence directly, then it will cause the public's strong dissatisfaction, do you understand? Right now the outside has been surrounded by citizens and journalists who want to know the truth, how do you ask me to explain your police action."
"Mr. Mayor, please see, on the desktop is all the evidence that we have recovered from the Japanese Black Dragon Society's clubhouse, and their high-powered radio station, these Japanese spies stole so much information that a lot of it has already been destroyed while they were resisting, and from the information that we have salvaged back, we have found, a map of our Brazilian Navy's deployment, as well as a map of the schedule of our transportation with the U.S. timetables of the transports between the people. Obviously these people have been operating in our Brazil for a very long time, and, have penetrated us so deeply that even our police department already has their spies. Therefore, I would like to take advantage of this escape of two Japanese spies as a reason to place all people of Japanese descent under surveillance residence. Because this Black Dragon Society alone certainly can't gather so much information, I seriously suspect that there are a large number of Japanese within the entire community of Japanese descent, providing information and cover for these spies."
"How dare these damn Japanese actually spy on us in Brazil and infiltrate spies into police stations. What kind of a police chief are you, people have already entered your house and you need to be alerted to realize it. I need a written report from you and you must catch the spy in your police station for me within two days. Now take all the evidence and come outside with me for a live press conference, we need to give the public an explanation." Mr. Mayor Scalia, after learning what happened, could only do what he could to appease the citizens before going after Chief Hodges.
And our Chief Hodges got a little pawed as soon as he heard that he was required to find the spy in the police department within two days! At the end of the day, solving crimes isn't his specialty! It's fine to skulk around, it's fine to be corrupt, but if he's asked to look into a case, he might as well be asked to find a scapegoat.
But Mr. Mayor gave the order, he also can only harden his head to go up. Soon the police guided the reporters to the outside of the Black Dragon Club Hall, and Mr. Mayor began to add fuel to the fire by explaining the spy case, from how long ago the police found out the clues, and after what thorough investigation, and after grasping enough evidence, they began to launch a surprise attack on the spy dens, but because of the spies were strictly trained, resulting in how serious losses the police paid.
Affirmed the excellent performance of the police in solving this major espionage case, and also expressed his determination and confidence in maintaining the security and stability of Sao Paulo. Finally, it is a heated condemnation of Japanese espionage, expressed the indignation of all Japanese expatriates for the Japanese intelligence services to provide convenience and information, and said that it will report to the President of Mr. Japanese will be included in the São Paulo unwelcome people. If it is not due to Brazil belongs to the Allied countries, Japan belongs to the Axis countries two countries now belong to the state of war, no embassy to each other, may have to go to the embassy to protest twice.
It concluded with an appeal to the citizens of São Paulo to arrest the fugitive spies, and a promise that the city would offer a reward of five thousand dollars for two spies.
Then, it was again Chief Hodges who made a speech, and after pretty much repeating what Mr. Mayor said, Mr. Chief was even more direct in stating that please be aware of the people of Japanese descent around you, as they could all be spies for Japanese spies. At the same time, Mr. Hodges even directly ordered the police department to start the policy of residential surveillance for all ethnic Japanese until the end of the war.
The following reporters looked at the evidence in front of them, as well as the number of Japanese who exchanged fire with the police, and each one of them was outraged that in just one night, the Japanese in Sao Paulo will become difficult to move around in Sao Paulo. It is believed that after the fermentation of time, the newspaper's continued coverage, and the city government's high reward, the Japanese in the future for quite some time, will become a street rat in Sao Paulo.
And all that had happened here was totally unexpected by Elrond, how he had never thought that things would come to such a pass after Captain Blackwell, who had sent him home, had approached the Chief of Police because of Colonel Titch's remark. But such a situation Elrond was surely glad to see.
Chief Hodges had just returned to the police station after dealing with the situation at the scene when he encountered Captain Blackwell, who had come to see him, and the Captain already had a rough idea of what had happened last night. In his heart, he regretted it, if he had known that this organization was a spy organization, he wouldn't have been idle enough to give this handy credit to Chief Hodges!
How to get involved in a hand to do so, but now the wood has come out of the bottle, Captain Blackwell will have to see if Director Hodges will do the job, even if you can't get the credit you still have to take some real benefits ah!
"Chief Hodges, I've given you such a great gift, I wonder how you're going to thank me!"
"Brother, this kind of thing I will certainly not forget you ah! Don't worry, this time, I have reported to Mr. Mayor that it was you who discovered the abnormality, and we launched the operation together, because your people are soldiers, it's not good to come out directly, and they all wore our police uniforms, so, don't worry, the credit will definitely have a part of you."
Hodges was also bitter in his heart! If the spies in the police station did not let the Japanese get wind of the operation in advance, and he had eliminated these spies in one go, he would not have shared his credit! But because the spies escaped two leaders, coupled with the action leaked, he also worried that when the time comes the credit did not get, back a punishment will be more than worth it, can only pull on the Blackwell captain, in writing the report will be Mr. Captain pulled together to share the risk is also a good choice.
Although it was possible to share some of the credit, it was excellent to share the risk, not to mention that this case was originally discovered by mistake when Mr. Captain suggested that he teach the Japanese a lesson.