JAPANESE PROTEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 11

JAPANESE PROTEST.

Action Of British Warship Resented. HAMPERING POLICT. <R>CPivpd 10.30 n.tn.) HONGKONG, February 8. While Vice-Ailiniml Sir Percy Noble and Adiiiirul Yarnell. British and American ('ommnudcrs-iu-Chief respectively in China, wore paving a poiirtesy cull mi Admiral Oikiiwa, aboard the warship Iduiiui, the Japanese sharply

protested to the British authorities at Tsingtao against the British action regarding the steamer Yungsheng, demanding an immediate explanation of this "unwarrantable action ,, hampering Japanese policy at Tsi:igtao, and requesting no repetition of it. 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 th« Ynnjrshenjr's papers in order to prevent an investigation. The British did not allow Customs officers to board the Birmingham. Japanese also seized two Norwegian steamers.