REPORTED MUTINY BY JAPANESE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 10

REPORTED MUTINY BY JAPANESE

Disorders In China LONDON, December 26. A mutiny of Japanese troops is reported. to have occurred on December 21. The Moscow radio quotes a Shanghai newspaper for the . statement. that anti-war feeling which is spreading among the Japanese soldiers lias led to a clash in one province between a Japanese detachment which refused to go on fighting against China and other Japanese troops. From the Moscow radio also come reports that there have been several assassinations recently of. Japanese officials in the same province, and that these were organized by antiwar elements in the Japanese army. Moscow reports more desertions by Chinese soldiers pressed into the setvice of Wang Ching-wei, head of the Japanese puppet Government, at Nanking. One army is said to have disappeared so rapidly in this way into the ranks of General Chiang Kai-shek that the Japanese command has published a manifesto threatening to shoot at sight anyone who leaves the town at night. American-Italian Cafe Brawl. In Japanese-controlled Shanghai the strike movement is reported to be spreading, and more than 10,000 people are now involved in it. Reuter’s Shanghai correspondent says that nine American marines and three sailors are reported to have been admitted to hospital after one of the bitterest cafe brawls for many months between defence forces of the International Settlement in which 100 American and Italian marines participated early on Christmas morning. The Italian casualties are unknown, but it is reported that several, were seriously injured. Sikhs <jf the Settlement police intervened on the side of the Americans. The brawl, which arose over the use of a table, raged till the arrival of military police. It is believed the clash was settled amicably. Boycott Threat to U.S.A. A boycott of American goods throughout territories controlled by Japan is threatened in the “Japan Times,” the English-language newspaper published in Tokio. It says that there may be a complete closing down of Far Eastern markets to American goods as a reprisal for American restrictions on Japanese imports.