TIENTSIN INCIDENT
AMERICAN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO JAPANESE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 13. A Tientsin correspondent of the American Press Association states that the Japanese military had announced that a United Slates official had offered apologies, compensation and the trial by court-martial of the marine responsible for the woundings reported yesterdal. Therefore they regard it as a “local issue." . A cablegram from Tientsin on October 12 read: — It is reported that when the two United States marines who were guarding a freight car clashed with two Japanese railway police in an altercation yesterday, one of the Japanese was wounded in the thigh when he drew his sword and that the other was struck on the head with a revolver butt. The Marine Board of Inquiry later announced that the marine detained by the Japanese had been released. The( board added that the marine had “quite an interesting experience, but was not ill-treated.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1939, Page 9
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