TOKIO CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1939, Page 6

TOKIO CONFERENCE

OPENING ON WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY

TIENTSIN BLOCKADE ISSUE.

JAPANESE PROPOSALS DRAWN UP.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

(Received This Dav, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 9.

The Tokio correspondent of “The Times’ - says the Anglo-Japanese conference concerning Tientsin is expected to open either on Wednesday or Thursday. Japanese military and civilian delegates held a preliminary conference at the weekend and drew up proposals for submission to Cabinet on Tuesday.

QUIET AT TIENTSIN

BUT MINOR ANNOYANCES BEING CONTINUED.

BRITONS MADE TO WAIT

IN QUEUES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 9.

The Tientsin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says all is quiet, but Japanese sentries are annoying Britons by sending them back to the end of queues in the examination sheds and giving preference to Chinese.

The British and Japanese military authorities have broken off relations. Lieutenant Homma, commander of the Japanese garrison at Tientsin, refused to receive Major-General Grasett, commanding the British troops in China, who is making a tour of inspection. The Japanese have interfered with shipping on the Hai River. They held up the P. and O. vessel Soudan for a day. APOLOGY ACCEPTED JAPANESE MOTOR-BOAT DAMAGED. COLLISION WITH BRITISH SHIP.

(Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) TOKIO, July 9.

The British Consul at Tientsin (Mr Jamieson) is reported to have apologised to the Japanese Army authorities regarding a river collision in which the escort vessel Lowestoft and a Japanese Army motor-boat were involved, damaging the latter. The Japanese, in view of the fact that the collision was purely accidental, accepted the apology and did not demand damages.