EARLY BETTERMENT AT TIENTSIN LIKELY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7

EARLY BETTERMENT AT TIENTSIN LIKELY.

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

British Remonstrances Had

Strong Influence.

FOOD SUPPLIES ON WAY

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"Thr Times'' Tokyo correspondent says that high Japanese officials indicate an early improvement in the Tientsin situation. Sir Robert Craigie's rcmnnst ranees have seemingly influenced civil and military authorities.

The War Office spokesman declared that if British procrastination had not been exasperating the Japanese would not have gone so far He added that their blockade would in t have been in vain if it led " U ; British to reconsider the folly of their policy towards Martha 1 Chiang Kai-shek.

Tons of vegetables, 1.-i bullocks and 30 pi»s arc being brought to Tientsin from Shanghai to-morrow.

Mr. (1. A. Suiit!:, a Briti.-h subject held by the Japanese, has W H .„ released.

ifr. 0. [''inlay, mi employee cd v\u\ Bunk of India, AunlmViH niiil Cliinti. Accompanied by his w\Vo. \\,y <v second time hum ordered t<> .strip nuked at a searching yiost in iw\\ view of Chinese wdfnvn. The wife was taken to a hut where she was almost stripped in the presence of a Japanese sentry and sea relied by a Chinese woman. Japanese military headquarters apologised lor the sentry's demand to search a British officer desiring to enter the concession, but who ordered his dm or to turn back when a search was threatened. The Japanese agreed that British nhips should have full right id entry to Swatow as from noon, local time, on Friday, says a *,cssajre from Hongkong. Passeiigeis. mail and food could be landed, but no general cargo. The decision has relieved Hongkong's anxiety for food, because it receives most of its perishables through Swatow.

Japanese protested against a British policeman who assaulted a Chinese policeman and Korean interpreter, and liberated their two prisoners. The Japanese have lifted the sea blockade at Swatow in the vicinity of which the Chinese are now fighting buck. and are reported to have stemmed tho Japanese advance to Chacau.