JAPAN APOLOGISES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 5

JAPAN APOLOGISES

THE “WHITE OPPRESSORS” INCIDENT ANTI-BRITISH AGITATION IN SHANGHAI. SEQUEL TO RECENT ARRESTS. By .Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 18. Japan has apologised regarding the “white oppressors” incident at Shanghai on August 13. ’ It was reported from Shanghai on August 13 that for the second time in two days Japanese planes had scattered ariti-foreign leaflets in the International Settlement, particularly attacking Britain. Meanwhile, foreign consuls were protesting to Japan that agitators were inciting the Chinese in the International Settlement. Acts of terrorism, which took place on the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, had 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. 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.