JAPAN'S REPLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 9

JAPAN'S REPLY

BRITISH PROTEST

ACTION IN TIENTSIN CONCESSION

SELF-DEFENCE PLEA

(British Official Wireless.) (Received March 14, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, March 13. Mr. E. G. Jamieson, British Con-sul-General at Tientsin, has received a reply from the local Japanese authorities in reference to protests concerning the erection of live-wire entanglements round the British concession. The reply is now under the consideration of the British Government. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received March 14, 1.30 p.m.) TIENTSIN, March 13. The Japanese reply states that the measures were taken in self-defence, the necessity for which will cease if the concession authorities cp-operate I effectively, in preserving peace. It adds that the insincerity of the authorities is enabling anti-Japanese elements to use the concessions for bases, and that the measures are therefore designed to enable the Japanese, if necessary, to prevent communication between the anti-Japanese elements in the concessions and butside.

ATTACK BY GUERRILLAS

NANKING REGIME TROOPS

JAPAN'S NEXT OBJECTIVE

(Received March 14, 1.20 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 13. Chinese guerrillas attacked a corps of the Nanking regime which was patrolling the western suburbs, after which Japanese reinforcements made a house-to-house search without result. The Japanese claim to have captured a village opposite Shayang, 25 miles from Shasi, an important port on the Yangtze, which is apparently their next objective. The Chinese claim to have launched a counter-offensive in West Shansi, where, they declared, floods have thwarted Japanese attempts to invade the Shensi Province. The Japanese made an air raid on Loyang and demolished 400 houses and caused fifty casualties.