FURTHER PROTEST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 5

FURTHER PROTEST

JAPANESE AIMS SEIZURE OF MINES HOSTILITY TO BPJTAIN MORE JEERS IN TOKIO SUGGESTED NAVAL MOVES

(Elec. Tol. Copyright—United Presß Aasn.) (Reed. Aug. 10, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 9. The Foreign Office has instructed the British Ambassador to Japan, Sir Robert Craigic, strongly to protest against the Japanese attempted confiscation of tihe Chiaotso coal mines in the Honan province as reported yesterday, and also to remind the Japanese of the assurances to preserve order in the occupied areas.

, Hong Kong messages state that unarmed .rating from the destroyer Tenedos were involved in a fracas with Chinese when a mob surrounded the British Consulate at Swatow and entered the compound and stoned the building and shouted anti-British slogans. One Chinese was injured.

The Japanese Consul, Mr. Takai, demanded a Britisih admission of the sailors' complicity in the trouble and demanded their punishment and also compensation and an apology.

It is reported that the Japanese landed at Paishahan, and closed Port Haimeng.

The Japanese naval spokesman, Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, ; in making reference to-day at Tokio to the report that Britain was inquiring during the crisis in the Anglo-JapanesiJ negotiations as to whether America could send a strong squadron to join the reinforced British Australian squadron at Singapore, said that he doubted such an extraordinary dislocation of itjhe international line-up, but anyhow Japan was unperturbed and would not in the least change her policy. The spokesman addled that Mr. Chamberlain's threat that a fleet might go to Asia amounted to "bombast for home consumption" and the fact that it was uttered revealed that the British were "jittery."