ANOTHER ARREST MADE.
DETENTION OF CORRESPONDENT. QUESTIONING'S AT SHANGHAI. (Received This Dav, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. It is announced here that Mr T. Ely (managing director of a petroleum company at Yokohama) is tlie latest Briton to be arrested. The Associated Press correspondent at Shanghai reports that- Mr Russel Brines, a member of the Associated Press staff, is held in an hotel at Tokio by the Japanese military police, apparently for questioning in connection with his dispatches on Mr Cox’s death and the arrests of Britons. The Japanese espionage round-up has spread to Tientsin, where Japanese gendarmes visited and questioned a woman and an officer in the British Concession without the permission of the British police. The Japanese also questioned Major G. H. Walker, at Peitaho.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 252, 1 August 1940, Page 6
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