LINER DETAINED.
NAZI NATIONALS INTERNED. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. In Tientsin the British concession police arrested a German accused of firing on a British patrol. A group of local members of the British Defence Force stormed and broke up a German tennis club.
Tho Admiralty has ordered the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan to remain in port, says a Shanghai report. Tho vessel was scheduled to leave for Vancouver.
perman residents have b»en rounded up and interned in a requisitioned Catholic church and school, which are enclosed in barbed wire, states a message from Hongkong.
The city is on a complete war basis. Volunteer air raid wardens have been enrolled and ships are posted at the harbour entrance. A strict censorship is imposed.
Six hundred Germans have been arrested and interned all over India, says a report from Bombay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 8
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142LINER DETAINED. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 8
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