DISORDER IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 5

DISORDER IN CHINA

4 ANTLBRITISH PROPAGANDA IN SHANGHAI JAPAN ACCUSED TACTICS OF PROVOCATION. THREE AGITATORS ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. SHANGHAI, August 13. For the second time in two days Japanese planes scattered anti-foreign leaflets in the International Settlement, particularly attacking Britain. Meanwhile, foreign consuls are protesting to. Japan that agitators are inciting the Chinese in the International Settlement. Acts of terrorism, which took place on the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, have been discovered to be the work of three Japanese officers who, disguised as soldiers, urged a crowd of Chinese to resist their “white oppressors.” They were arrested by American marines and identified as Japanese. Others who were detained going toward the boundary and removed to barracks, proudly admitted their Japanese identity. A speeding car filled with Japanese in mufti, rushed across the Settlement today, firing revolvers at the Chinese. It was stopped by barbed wire and the occupants detained. Japanese who trained machine-guns on British sentry posts were ordered to remove them under threat that Britain would act likewise. The Japanese spokesman later declared that those arrested were not officers but civilians employed in a special section of the army. They acted on their own initiative.