JAPANESE TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1939, Page 8

JAPANESE TACTICS

ALLEGED COMMUNIST DANGER PROBLEM NOT TOO BIG TO HANDLE. CRITICISM OF BRITISH DELAY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. August 18. "The Times;" Tokio leprosenlat ive quotes 3k Kato as saying I hat Japan's al I Hude in flic- Tientsin talks is unchanged, and that Britain must be responsible for any untoward results due to delay. The Exchange's Peking correspondent says the Japanese militarists have attempted to inject a new element into the anti-Brilish movement by declaring that Communists arc trying to obtain control of the Press. Correspondents were sceptical and asked whether the situation was out of hand. The spokesman replied in the affirmative, but added that it was not 100 big for the Japanese to handle.

ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SPEAR. CANADIAN PRIESTS RELEASED. (Received This Dav, .12.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI August 18. Fathers Courchesne and Renaud, Canadian missionary priests arrested a few days ago by the Japanese, have been released. Official dispatches from Peking reveal that Lieut.-Colonel Spear is on the verge of a breakdown. He is living oil bread and eggs, because other food is unsuitable and has not exercised because the Japanese have not transmitted to London his query whether he, as a Colonel, could walk with a private as escort. Lieut.-Colonel Spear, except for an interpreter's brief daily visit, is virtually in solitary confinement. SILVER & CURENCY FRANCE SUPPORTS BRITISH STAND. AMBASSADOR AT TOKIO INSTRUCTED. (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) TOKIO, August 18. France fully approves the British refusal to discuss the silver and currency question as a purely BritishJapanese issue and has instructed her Ambassador in Tokio that such questions entail consultation by all the Powers. KOWLOON OCCUPATION —- i SIGNS OF NEW LANDING. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) HONG KONG. August 18. Japanese warships and transports are ■concentrated at Pakhoi, where a landing apparently is contemplated. Troops have seized Shatoukok, behind Kowloon.