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(Received January 25, 11.15 a.m.)
NEW YORK, January 24,
The Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times," Mr. Hallett Abend, says that in the last two and a half years Japan has set many precedents which are likely to embarrass Tokio in pressing its protest against 'the Asama Maru incident, notably, the stopping of . the Ranpura. Also, British and other third Power ships have been stopped in the Yangtze estuary a few miles from Shanghai and passengers and cargo removed, although Japan is technically not a belligerent.
On May 24 last the P. and O. liner Ranpura was boarded and searched just outside Hong Kong by a Japanese cruiser, the British Ambassador making a vigorous protest. The French liner Aramis and the German steamer Sauerland were similarly held up on the same day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 11
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