JAPAN'S INTERFERENCE
COASTAL SHIPPING
REPORTED TO BE INCREASING
A GERMAN PROTEST
(Received May 29, 11.25 a.m.)
LONDON, May 28,
■ The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" says it is disclosed that a Japanese warship stopped the German steamer Sauerland, bound for Shanghai, on May 25, and examined its papers. The German Consul made a protest.
The Japanese/ interferonc© with foreign coastal shipping is increasing. A warship is reported to have stopped an unnamed British steamer on the coast of Fukien Province and to have boarded and searched her for five hours.
Pirates on the Yangtze Delta looted the small Portuguese steamer Tejo near Woosung. •
Shanghai reports that the Japanese Consul there, who had. just returned from a visit to Tokio, stated in an interview yesterday that Japan would insist on a greater share of the control of the International Settlement.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9
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