BRITISH ARMOURED CARS IN TIENTSIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 191, 15 August 1939, Page 9

BRITISH ARMOURED CARS IN TIENTSIN.

CONCESSION PATROL. Japanese Soldiers Take To Their Heels. CHINESE CROWD CHEERS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11.30 n.ni.) LONDON', August 14. Armoured cars are patrolling the British concession in Tientsin, owing to the outbreak of an intensive antiUntisli campaign. Tho appearance of two British armoured cars caused Japanese soldiers, who were illegally searching a Chinese junk moored at British wharves, to take to thHr hcela. A Chinese crowd cheered. At Tutnptna an anti-British mob attacked the British and American tobacco plant at 11it and damaged furniture and windows. All IJriti-.li subject* have now been evacuated from Shansi. Ant i British demonstrations continue at Poking. The "News Chronicle" Tokyo correspondent says that the Japanese-con-trolled Provincial (ioverriment has taken over the administration of British-owned coal mines in North Hunan. A Tokyo message says the Japanese, in the course of n glm duel across the Klialu River, claim to have silenced Russo-Mongolian fire and killed General Yokovleff.

HEALTH NOT GOOD. Fate Of British Officer Held By Japanese. PRISONER IN PRIVATE ROOM. (Received 10.no n.m.) LONDON', August 14. Tho Japanese at Peking decline to explain the delay or indicate the date of tho trial of Lieutenant-Colonel Spears, the British military attache who has been held for some weeks on charges of espionage. He is held prisoner in a private room at the gendiirniery, and regularly receives letters and newspapers. Tho British Embassy doctor at Peking says that Colonel Spears complained in his last letter that ho was suffering from fever. He denied the official Japanese reports of his good health. A message from Shanghai says that Mr. Gerald Parker, military language officer in Tokyo, is visiting Colonel Spears to ascertain the conditions of hie confinement.