WEIHAIWEI ISLAND
ARRIVAL OF JAPANESE WARSHIPS POSSIBLY SINISTER SIGNIFICANCE. ATTITUDE OF THE PUPPET GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) SHANGHAI, October 3. It is reported that six Japanese • destroyers, a cruiser and a transport have anchored off the island of Weihaiwei, .which the Chungking Government has just leased to Britain for another ten years. The Nanking regime recently informed the British Government that it did not recognise the Chungking Government’s right to lease the island, and that it would consider that Britain was infringing China’s territorial integrity if the island were not evacuated.
Foreigners in Weihaiwei are said to be in a considerable state of alarm lest the presence of the Japanese ships is connected with a possible attempt to force Britain to evacuate the island. Naval circles in Shanghai, however, state that the mainland opposite the island is being used as a training centre for Wang Ching Wei’s new Chinese navy. If is possible that the Japanese ships are there in order to assist in such training.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1940, Page 6
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