JAPANESE PROTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1939, Page 6

JAPANESE PROTEST

AGAINST DELAY IN TOKIO DISCUSSIONS MOVE BY UNITED STATES AND FRANCE. INTEREST IN FINANCIAL ISSUES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. August 10. Tim Tokio correspondent of ilie British United Press says ihai the Japanese diplomat. Air. Kato, told the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, that the army representatives would return to Tientsin early next week' unless the negotiations were resumed. lie urgently requested the British to accelerate the deliberations. The Foreign Office denied that there was an ultimatum, but pressure is not doubted. The United States and French Charges d’Affaires advised the Foreign Office that their Governments had a common interest with Britain in the financial issues concerning Tientsin and requested recognition of it. According to the “Asahi Shimbun,” the request was rejected as unreasonable. The Foreign Office declared it would deal with Britain alone. A message from Shanghai states that the British and French Consulates in Chungking were seriously damaged during a bombing raid. Four Chinese at the British Consulate were killed. BRITISH SHIP HELD UP RESCUED BY WARSHIP. (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) HONG KONG, August 10 The captain of the British steamer Shinai, returning from Shanghai, after loading salt at Hsiushau. near Amoy, was halted by a Japanese armed trawler. Captain G. A. Evans radioed H.M.S. Westcott, which escorted the Shinai to safety. The port of Hsiushau has been mined and closed. The Japanese .arc burning sampans. HOSTILE CROWD DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE EMBASSY. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, August 10. A crowd of 10.000 demonstrated outside the British Embassy, including 500 from the Cb>«ose quarter. PRESTIGE DAMAGED ADDRESS BY MR. PIROW. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG. August 10. Addressing volunteers, the Minister for Defence, Mr. O. Pirow. said: “War or no war, the white man’s prestige in the East has already sunk to zero and unless it is rehabilitated in the Pacific will sink to the same level in the countries of the Indian Ocean, with disastrous repercussions in Africa. It is a pity that European nations are so blind with hatred as to forget that the white's prestige concerns the whole white race and not any particular nation.”