FRACAS AT SWATOW
JAPAN NOT MODIFYING DEMANDS. CHARGES AGAINST BRITISH SAILORS. By Telegraph —Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.30 p.m.) HONG KONG, August 10. The Japanese Consul at Swatow has refused the request for a modification of demands in connection with the 'lcnedos incident. According to a report from HongKong on Thursday, unarmed ratings from the destroyer Tenedos were involved in a fracas with Chinese whena mob surrounded the British Consulate at Swatow. entered the building and shouted anti-British slogans. One Chinese was injured. The Japanese Consul demanded a British admission of the sailors’ complicity in the trouble and demanded their punishment, also compensation and an apology.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1939, Page 6
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