The gunfire continued until dawn, when reporters and crowds of people gathered outside the Japanese community were stopped outside the cordon by the police who were maintaining order.

The mayor of São Paulo and some members of the government also rushed to the scene of the incident in the early morning, and the mayor, Mr. Merkti Scalia, rushed to the scene of the incident while instructing the staff around him to calm the emotions of citizens and journalists.

Mayor Scalia was so angry that the police did not speak to the city government before taking action, and he was woken up by his secretary in the morning to learn that the Japanese community was surrounded by the police and launched an operation, and gunshots rang out in the middle of the night. And he didn't know what was going on, which made him very angry, so he didn't go back to work in the city hall, but came to the scene in a rage for the first time, wanting to question the police chief what was going on.

When I came to the scene and saw the corpses all over the ground, I was even more shocked, especially when I saw that many police officers were killed and injured. Seeing that the police chief Hodges and a group of police officers were surrounding a living room, he directly broke in and said, "Hodges, what are you going to do, why did you suddenly launch an attack on the Japanese community, and you police don't need to report to the city government when they carry out such a big operation now?" Don't forget, I've appointed you, the director. ”

Director Hodges, who was checking with the police on the information stolen by the Japanese, was startled when he heard the shouting and swearing coming from behind him. Turning his head, it turned out to be Mayor Scalia, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, after all, this is his immediate boss, and he is also the police chief appointed by him. Hurriedly said:

"Mr. Mayor, this time the matter is really urgent, I was going to explain the situation to you early this morning after dealing with it last night, but things went wrong, and all the original plans were disrupted. Please come here, and I'll explain it to you. As he spoke, he directed Mr. Mayor to a pile of evidence.

Mayor Scalia, hearing Director Hodges's words, could only temporarily suppress the anger in his heart, and followed him to the table, only to see that there were many things on the table, including radios, documents, and some of them had been partially burned.

"Last night, Captain Blackwell of the garrison came over and told me that there was a combat hero of the expeditionary force who had returned to us in St. Paul yesterday, and when he went to pick him up, he heard him say that he suspected that the Black Dragon Society, a gangster organization in the Japanese community, might be engaged in espionage, and that their garrison wanted to take action. However, considering that São Paulo is part of my jurisdiction, I can't do it without passing through me, so I came and talked to me. But at that time, it was already very late, and Mr. Captain and I, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, did not have time to inform you, so we could only directly arrange for people to start working on these little Japan. As a result, I didn't expect that these Axis bastards actually had spies in our police station, so that they could find out about our actions in advance, and the sneak attack that was originally prepared turned into a strong attack, so it caused a lot of casualties among our personnel. He also let the two leaders escape. I'm so sorry, but please punish you! ”

Director Hodges gave a detailed account of what had happened to Mayor Scalia. It was just a matter of trying to get justice for the battle heroes into a battle hero who suspected the Japanese of espionage.

Mayor Scalia was shocked when he heard this: "These Japanese are spying in our Brazil, do you have any evidence?" The size of the Japanese population in São Paulo is not small, and if you do it directly without actual evidence, it will cause strong dissatisfaction among the people at that time, do you understand? Now that the outside is full of citizens and journalists who want to know the truth, how do you ask me to explain your police operations? ”

"Mr. Mayor, please see, the table is full of evidence that we have searched from the Japanese Black Dragon Society, as well as their high-power radio station, these Japanese spies have stolen a lot of information, many of which have been destroyed while they resisted, from the materials we rescued, we found the deployment map of our Brazilian Navy, and the schedule of the transport ships between us and the Americans. Obviously, these people have been operating in Brazil for a very long time, and they have infiltrated us so deeply that even our police station already has their spies. Therefore, I would like to use the escape of the two Japanese spies as an excuse to place all Japanese Americans under residential surveillance. Because this Black Dragon Society alone will certainly not be able to gather so much intelligence, I seriously suspect that there are a large number of Japanese in the entire Japanese community, providing information and cover for these spies. ”

"These damn Japanese really dare to spy in our Brazil and infiltrate spies into police stations. How did you become the police chief, someone else has already entered your home, and you still need someone to remind you to know. I need you to give me a written report, and I have to get the spy out of your police station within two days. Now with all the evidence, come with me outside for a live press conference, and we need to give an explanation to the citizens. "After Mr. Scalia learned what had happened, he could only appease the citizens before making trouble with Director Hodges.

And our Chief Hodges was a little numb when he heard that he was asked to find the spy in the police station in two days! After all, it's not his ability to solve the case! It's okay to slap the horse, and it's okay to be corrupt, but if you ask him to investigate the case, it's better to ask him to find a substitute for the dead.

But Mr. Mayor gave the order, and he could only go up hard. Soon the police guided the reporters to the outside of the Black Dragon Society, and Mr. Mayor began to explain the espionage case, from how long ago the police found out the clues, and after how thorough investigation, after having enough evidence, they began to launch a surprise attack on the spy den, but because the spies were strictly trained, the police paid a serious loss.

He affirmed the outstanding performance of the police in cracking this major espionage case, and expressed his determination and confidence in maintaining the security and stability of São Paulo. Finally, he condemned the Japanese espionage acts, expressed indignation at all Japanese expatriates for facilitating and informing the Japanese intelligence services, and said that he would report to Mr. President and include the Japanese as persona non grata in São Paulo. If it weren't for the fact that Brazil belonged to the Allies and Japan belonged to the Axis powers, the two countries were now at war and did not have embassies with each other, and they might have to go to the embassy to protest twice.

Finally, he called on all citizens of São Paulo to arrest the fugitive spies, and promised that the city government would offer a reward of $5,000 for the two spies.

Then, it was Director Hodges who spoke, and after almost repeating Mr. Mayor's words, Mr. Director directly said that he should pay attention to the Japanese around him, they may all be spies of Japanese spies. At the same time, he directly ordered the police to carry out a policy of residential surveillance for all Japanese Americans until the end of the war.

The reporters below looked at the evidence in front of them and the number of Japanese who exchanged fire with the police, and they were all indignant, and in just one night, the Japanese in São Paulo would become unable to move an inch in São Paulo. It is believed that after the fermentation of time, the continuous coverage of the newspapers, and the high reward offered by the city government, the Japanese will become street rats in São Paulo for a long time to come.

And what happened here was something that Fang Lang didn't expect at all, he never thought that because of Colonel Teach's words, after Captain Blackwell, who sent him home, found the police chief, things would develop like this. However, Fang Lang must be happy to see such a situation.

As soon as Chief Hodges returned to the police station after dealing with the situation at the scene, he met Captain Blackwell, who had come to him to look for him, and the captain already had a general idea of what had happened last night. I regretted it in my heart, if he had known that this organization was a spy organization, he would not have been idle enough to give this credit to Director Hodges!

You have to get involved anyway, but now that the wood is in the boat, Captain Blackwell wants to see if Director Hodges will be a man, even if he can't get the credit, he has to get some practical benefits!

"Director Hodges, I gave you such a big gift, I don't know how you are going to thank me!"

"Brother, I'm sure I won't forget you for this kind of thing! Don't worry, I have already reported to Mr. Mayor that this incident is the anomaly you discovered, and the operation we carried out together, because your people are soldiers, it is not easy to come forward directly, and they are all wearing our police uniforms, so you can rest assured, you will definitely have a share of the credit. ”

Hodges is also bitter in his heart! If it weren't for the spies in the police station who let the Japanese get the news in advance and caught all these spies himself, he wouldn't have shared his credit! But because the spy escaped from the two ringleaders, and the operation leaked, he was also worried that if the credit was not earned by then, the punishment would outweigh the losses, so he could only pull Captain Blackwell, and it was also a good choice to pull Mr. Captain together to share the risk when writing the report.

Although it is possible to share some of the credit, it is also excellent to be able to share the risk, not to mention that this case was originally discovered by Mr. Captain at the suggestion of teaching himself a lesson to the Japanese.