JAPANESE GIVE WAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 7

JAPANESE GIVE WAY

VICTORY CLAIMED BY CHINESE

General Offensive South of Shantung

ENEMY THROWN BACK SEVEN MILES

By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. . (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) HANKOW, May 3. The Chinese claim that a general offensive south of Shantung hurled back, the Japanese for seven miles.

ACCESS TO HONGKEW.

BRITISH LORRY TURNED BACK. Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m. SHANGHAI, May 3. The British United Press reports that the Japanese turned back a lorry, of British troops that were seeking to cross the Garden Bridge into Hongkew, where a British gunboat had just berthed. The Japanese ■ protested to the British, alleging that the naval authorities were attempting to take munitions to Hongkew without notice.

AN APPARENT BLUNDER.

ATTEMPT TO STOP NAVAL LORRY. (Recd This Day, 10.50 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 3. British army authorities state that the troops involved in the Garden Bridge episode were naval men in khaki uniforms. A Japanese officer, attempting to persuade a British non-commis-sioned officer to accompany him to the Japanese headquarters, twice seized his arm, but retired from the Consulate when the non-commis-sioned officer refused to budge. The British authorities are making representations to the Japanese Army headquarters regarding the incident.

The British naval authorities say a naval supply lorry, crossing Garden Bridge, was stopped by a Japanese sentry although it possessed a permit. The Japanese permitted the lorry to pass after an altercation.

DEMANDS ON GERMANY.

HITLER RECALLS AMBASSADOR FOR CONFERENCE.

(Recd This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. The “News Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent says the Gernjan Ambassador at Tokio, Major-General Ott, is reported to have been recalled to confer with Herr Hitler, after his Rome visit, upon Japan’s demands that Germany cease to export munitions to China and withdraw her Army instructors in China.