RETALIATION BY JAPANESE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 247, 31 July 1941, Page 5

RETALIATION BY JAPANESE.

GUARDS AROUND PREMISES. AMERICAN AND BRITISH FIRMS. (Roc. 0.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 30. It is learned that the Japanese stationed Chinese gendarmes around the National Carbon Company’s distributing office at Tsinan, in the Shantung province. This is an American firm. They also stationed guards at the offices of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks at Swatow. British and American consular officials and business men are watching closely for signs of activity by the Nanking regime, which, it is thought, will take the initiative of “protectively seizing” British and American properties in Japanese-controlled territory, to which British and American retaliation is impossible since the Nanking regime lias no freezable foreign credits. The United States Consulate confirmed that Japanese military authorities in Northern China have begun seizing American property.