ESTABLISHED BY JAPANESE AT KULANGSU

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7

ESTABLISHED BY JAPANESE AT KULANGSU

Island Inhabitants Facing Serious Food Shortage SIMILAR ACTION SAID TO BE PROPOSED ' AT TIENTSIN GRAVE FEARS OF DECISIVE INCIDENT By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, June 16. The Japanese today announced a complete blockade of Kulangsu. The settlement is completely cut off by picket boats, and an embargo has been placed upon the importation of goods, states an Independent Cable Service message from Hong Kong. The Japanese spokesman, announcing the blockade, said that the refusal of the municipal council to accede to the previous Japanese demands left no alternative but to starve the inhabitants of the settlement into submission. . . , It is reported that the Japanese authorities propose to adopt a similar line of action in Tientsin. Five thousand people on the island are facing a serious food shortage. Five .Ministers, headed by the Prime Minister, Baron Iliranuma, will meet in Tokio al 1 p.m. (local lime) to formulate Japan’s future policy regarding the British and French Concessions. The American Concessions are noticeably not mentioned in the Japanese Press. , . Grave fears are entertained in Tientsin that a decisive incident will occur tomorrow, when the Japanese plan their mass parade into the British Concession ostensibly to honour the victims of the Boxer Rebellion. The British authorities are studying means of preventing the parade.