CONTINUED PRESSURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1939, Page 7

CONTINUED PRESSURE

DECISION OF CONFERENCE AT TOKIO DISCRIMINATION DENIED. FRANCE READY TO SUPPORT BRITAIN. LONDON, June 21. The Dome! News Agency states from Tokio that a conference of the highest military and diplomatic officials in Tientsin decided to continue the pressure on Britainuntil she ends her support for General Chiang Kai-shek. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman denied that British subjects in Tientsin were stripped and subjected to personal indignities. The British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, was informed there was no discrimination between one nationality and another; the army was only carrying out duties imposed by a military necessity and was not even hampering the arrival of food supplies. Reports from Tientsin, however, indicate further efforts to cut off the supplies of vegetables trickling into the concession. A message from Paris states that France is prepared to follow Britain in any form of protest or retaliatory measures. The publicist, Mme. Tabouis, states that Herr Hitler informed the German Ambassador in Tokio that he would not tolerate a victory by the democracies over Japan. Diplomatic ■ activity continued in London yesterday in connection with the Tientsin situation. The Foreign Affairs Committee discussed the situation at length. The Domei agency report (published yesterday) that 3000 members of the White Russian Volunteer Corps are parading under arms in the British area is corrected by a statement that the parade will take place on June 25. The corps was recently formed to assist Japan in Asia..