FLAG INCIDENT
BRITISH SAILOR ARRESTED IN SHANGHAI. APOLOGY TO JAPANESE. (Reed This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. The British authorities at Shanghai have issued a statement saying that a British naval rating at Tsingtao who mishandled a Japanese flag on August 17 was immediately surrounded by Japanese soldiers and wrote a note of apology, which he handed to the Japanese. The rating was released, but other ratings arriving, who were not participants in the incident, were taken into custody until the arrival of the British consul. A Japanese statement said that the first rating tore down, trampled and spat on the flag.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 6
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103FLAG INCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 6
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