TENSE INCIDENT.
BRITISH OFFICERS DETERMINED
Received January 20, 10.15 a.m. SHANGHAI, Jan. 19,
A tense incident occurred at Tientsin to-day, the British authorities refusing to hand over the Chinese living in the British Concession to the Japanese Army. The Japanese threatened to enter the Concession. The British officer replied: “We shall he compelled to resist,” after which the Japanese modified. tlieir attitude.
JAPANESE SHIP SAILS,
SCRAP METAL LEFT BEHIND. SYDNEY, Jan. 19. Tlie Japanese motor-ship Melbourne Maru sailed for Japan to-day without her cargo of lead iqgots and tin clippings, owing to the waterside workers refusing to handle scrap metal convertible into .munitions. There was also no response to a call for free labour.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 9
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114TENSE INCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 9
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