"NWARRANTED ACTION”
BRITISH INTERVENTION SHARP PROTEST BY JAPAN EXPLANATION DEMANDED HONGKONG, Feb. 8. While Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble and Admiral Yarnell, British and American Commanders-in-Chiel in China respectively, were paying a courtesy call on Admiral Oikawa aboard the warship Idumo, the Japanese sharply protested to the British authorities at Tsingtao against the British action regarding the Yungsheng incident, demanding an immediate explanation of the "unwarrantable action" in hampering Japanese policy at Tsingtao and requesting that there be no repetition of it. A cable on February 6 stated that after the Japanese had seized the tramp steamer Yungsheng on suspicion of not declaring a quantity of currency, silver and bullion intended for the Chinese, the British cruiser Birmingham arrived, landed an armed party and confiscated the Yungsheng's papers in order to present an investigation, says the Tsingtao agency. The British did not allow Customs officers to beard the Birmingham. Japanese also seized two Norwegian steamers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 7
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154"NWARRANTED ACTION” Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 7
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