GERMAN SEA RAIDERS.
USE OF JAP. NAMES
LONDON, Jan. 2
A dispatch from Tokyo says the Japanese Navy spokesman stated: "Under no circumstances hae Japan sanctioned the use by German raiders of the names of Japanese vessels, or Japanese flags."
He said he had no information of reports .that raiders were sailing in the vicinity of Japanese-controlled islands.
Writing in the "News Chronicle" Mr. Vernon Bartlett states that the British Ambassador to Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie, has been instructed to inquire concerning reports that German ships are fitting out as sea raiders in. Japanese ports. Mr. Bartlett eays the sinking of the Turakina and the shelling of Nauru adds urgency to the inquiries.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 6
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