SHANGHAI INCIDENT
AMERICAN SAILOR BEATEN PROTEST TO JAPANESE. ATTEMPT TO GAIN INFORMATION ABOUT WARSHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SHANGHAI, September 30. Mr Butrick (U.S. Consul in Shanghai) conferred with Admiral Hart and Colonel Peck aboard the cruiser Augusta. It is learned that the U.S. Navy has issued orders forbidding American naval men’s families to proceed to the Orient from the United States although they are not yet evacuating the families now here. . It is authoritatively stated that Admiral Hart has protested to Vice-Ad-miral Hantaro Shimada against the action of Japanese gendarmes on September 29 who seized an American sailor for allegedly being intoxicated and dragged him to a gendarme office where he was beaten before being released. It is reliably stated that the gendarmes manhandled him in an effort io obtain the location of certain United States warships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 5
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