APOLOGY DEMANDED
JAPS. At shanghai
BRITISH POLICE ACTION
(Reed. Aug. 24, 9 a.m.) (LONDON, Aug. 22,
The Nanking puppet Government has worked out a plan for a fundamental solution of problems of the International Settlement andi fJ the foreign' concessions' at Shanghai, whose puppet Mayor, under a threat of other measures, .demanded that .the Municipal Council should/ apologise and punish the.police and compensate the victims of Saturday’s incident when Sergeant Kinloeh, after 'being shot without provocation in the'back by puppet police and, trespassers, returned the fire and) killed two of them.
A Pekin message states that the army spokesman declared that Japan would not assume responsibility for the lives of Britons and Americans in the occupied' areas.
A Hong Kong message states that the Government there has ordered the immediate compilation of a. register of British women and' children in view of possible evacuation in case of an emergency. '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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149APOLOGY DEMANDED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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