SENTRY IN RIGHT.
“SLAPPING INCIDENT.”
JAPANESE CLAIM,
Received January 29, 11.5 a.m. SHANGHAI, Jan. 28
In connection with complaints . regarding the behaviour of _ Japanese soldiers at Nanking, _ Major-General Hooma and another senior officer have been ordered to make' a full personal investigation. The Japanese spokesman says that the slapping of the face of the American, Mr Allison, was the result of his own insolence for refusing the sentry’s order to leave an occupied Chinese house in which ho was making investigations. Furthermore, lie was an outspoken critic of the Japanese army. In addition Mr Allison on January 25 shook his fist and called an imbecile a Japanese soldier trying to board liis motor-car as an escort. The commandant had apoolgised for the slapping only as a gesture of courtesy, because the sentry was in the right.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 9
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136SENTRY IN RIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 9
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