WILD CHARGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1940, Page 6

WILD CHARGES

MADE BY JAPANESE BRITISH SUBJECTS AMAZED AND DISMAYED. ALLEGATIONS OF ESPIONAGE AND PROPAGANDA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i (Received This Dav, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON. July 30. ‘‘The Times' Tokio correspondent says amazement and consternation mildly describes the feelings of British residents in Japan. The Japanese publish graphs showing how British propaganda flows from the British Cabinet to the Embassy, where it is passed on to war information committees, and also to the newly-formed “British Library cf Information and Culture.” “The committees, however, merely circulate war news, while the library is exclusively cultural, like Japanese institutes in the British Empire and the United States. A statement ascribed to the Japanese War Office expatiates on the “ramifications of British propaganda and espionage,” which it seems to consider most objectionable when functioning through legitimate channels. ADDITIONAL ARRESTS (Received This Day. Noon). TOKIO, July 30. Additional British subjects arrested today are Messrs E. G. Price, of Kobe, and J. de Strafford, of Nagasaki. THREAT TO AMERICANS REGARDED SERIOUSLY CONSULATE WARNING. (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 39. The American Consulate at midnight warned six prominent American residents cf Shanghai whose expulsion had been “ordered” yesterday fortnight by the Nanking Government to take precautions, because the Japanese police might seek their arrest. It is understood that the American authorities are viewing seriously the warning to Mr Alcctt, because the expiration of the term will coincide with Prince Konoye’s anticipated announcement of a new policy.