QUALIFIED APOLOGY
OFFERED BY JAPAN FOR FACE-SLAPPING INCIDENTS. SENTRIES SIMPLE MEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) TOKIO, August 16. The Japanese Embassy at Peking has offered the United States a qualified apology in connection with face-slap-ping incidents, declaring that sentries are simple men, who interpret their orders sometimes rashly. U.S.A. NOT SATISFIED DEMAND FOR PUNISHMENT OF SENTRY. AND ASSURANCES AGAINST REPETITION. (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 16. “The Times’’ Shanghai correspondent says the United States protest demands the punishment of the sentry who assaulted Mrs Richards and assurances that there will be no repetition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 8
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