ARRESTED JAPANESE.
SINGAPORE INCIDENT.
STRONG TOKIO PROTEST.
(Rcc. 9.5 a.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 23. The Associated Press reports that the Foreign Office announces that it has directed the Consul-General .at Singapore to protest strongly against the arrest of. six Japanese '(four men and two women) on, Saturday. lie is to'demand their .immediate release one bein" a member of the consular stair. The Dome! News Agency calls the British action in making the arrests a national affront, and has connected the incident with proposals to give tne United States fleet facilities at bingaP Four of the Japanese have now been released. To day one man Mamuro Shimozaki, and Miss Atsuko Yamakawa, were charged under the official secrets ordinance and remanded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 254, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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118ARRESTED JAPANESE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 254, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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