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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1941, Page 6

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JAPANESE NATIONALS IN BRITAIN AND OTHER COUNTRIES. ACTION IN PHILIPPINES. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 8. The Press Attache at the Japanese Embassy fin London, M. Mitsui, said all the members of the Embassy were shocked when they heard the news that communication with Tokio had been cut off on December 7. No arrangements had yet been made for an exchange of British and Japanese residents. Many Japanese had been given temporary accommodation at the Embassy. The Home Office announced that all Japanese nationals over sixteen in the United Kingdom were required to report to the police. It is reported from Bombay that the police have'rounded up male Japanese throughout India. At least sixty were taken into custody in Bombay alone. About forty Japanese firms have been taken over by a controller. No action is contemplated at present against Japanese women. ■President Roosevelt' has authorised the arrest of Japanese nationals in the United States regarded as dangerous to the security of the nation. About a thousand Japanese aliens will be affected. A broadcast from Manila reports that native Japanese have seized control of some communities where they are thickly concentrated, but that in other sections the Filipino police rounded up Japanese, taking them to concentration camps.