OFFICIALS WORRIED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 50, 27 January 1938, Page 12

OFFICIALS WORRIED.

JAPANESE HELD UP. APPEAL FOR TROOPS. Received January 27, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 26. A Shanghai message states that there are the best of reasons to believe that Tokio is worried over the continued hold-up of the Japanese advance. The weather and insufficiency of troops are hampering the Japanese, but they are also encountering unexpected and most powerful opposition. General Matsui is reported to have apepaled for four more divisions.

OFFENCE IN TOKIO.

MARION MOLLER CASE,

Received January 27, 8.5 a.m. TOKIO, Jan. 26

The owners of the steamer Marion Moller were fined £BB for infringing the fortified zone in Tokio Bay. Inc authorities decided confiscate the ship. , '* „ . . The Magistrate fined MacKenzie and Kangarius £l2 each for destroying property.

A message from Tokio on January 8 stated that the Japanese had detained the British cargo vessel Marion Moller forcing her to anchor in a storm ’at Kaneda Bay until it is ascertained whether any of the crew could be charged with espionage. A later message stated that the Japanese had cleared the Marion Moller s crew of suspicion of espionage. NOT FAVOURED. EMBARGO AGAINST JAPAN. Received January 27, 9.35 a.m. MIAMI, Jan. 26. Not favouring a step possibly involving the United States in war, roe American Federation of Labour has rejected the International Federation of Trades Unions’ suggested financial and economic embargo against Japan. The president (Mr William Green) has cabled Sir Walter Citrine (general secretary of the Trades Union Congress) stating that, though deploring the aggressive, indefensible and uncivilised warfare against China, the council was not prepared, at present, to go as far as was suggested.

JAPANESE EXCHANGE. SCHEME FOR SUPPORT. (Times Cable.) Received January 27, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 26. The Tokio correspondent of the Times states that as a measure of support for the Japanese exchange, Mr Shozo Muvata, chairman of the second largest Japanese shipping ' line and president of the Shipowners’ Association, has submitted to Cabinet a plan for carrying all Japanese commodities in Japanese ships. Foreigners taking Japanese cargoes would require an official permit. He says the scheme will increase the earnings of Japanese shipping by 160,000,000 yen a year.