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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1939, Page 5

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UNTIL INVESTIGATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. BRITISH OFFICERS HELD BY JAPANESE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PEKING, June 6. The acting counsellor at the British Embassy, Mr Lamb, on his return from Kalgan, said that the Japanese intended to hold the British attache, Lieutenant-Colonel Spear, and Lieutenant Cooper till an investigation of their cases had been completed. He was assured that they were comfortably quartered, but he was not permitted to see them. The Embassy is now making representations to highei’ Japanese and British authorities. ARREST IN POOTUNG. EMPLOYEE IN BRITISH MILL. SHANGHAI, June 6. The Japanese have arrested Mr R. M. Tinkler, an employee in a British finishing mill in Pootung. Mr Tinkler and a Japanese officer were wounded and placed in hospital during a clash between mill strikers and Japanese, in which bluejackets intervened to restore order. The charge made against Tinkler is not disclosed, and British officials have been prevented from seeing him. The Shanghai correspondent of the British United Press says it is revealed that Mr Tinkler was wounded by a Japanese marine's bayonet. The Japanese allege that he fired on a Japanese officer in a Pootung mill.

“MISUSE OF ao JAPANESE REPRESENTATIONS TO UNITED STATES. SHANGHAI, June 6. Japan has requested the United States authorities to prevent the construction by the Chinese of military establishments in proximity to American property and also misuse of the American flag. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE. CHARGE BY JAPANESE AUTHORITIES. . TOKIO, June 6. It is reported from Kalgan that Lieutenant Colonel Spear and Lieutenant Cooper have been charged by the Japanese authorities with espionage.