JUST A SCARE?
THREAT TO AMBASSADOR
JAPANESE VERSION
NEW YORK, January 26.
The Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times," Mr. Hallett Abend, says the report on the attempt on the life ,of the American Ambassador in China. Mr. N. T. Johnson, is the second assassination scare the Japanese have started within a week. The Japanese on January 19 arrested two Chinese for attempting to purchase a picture of Mr. ■Johnson. One allegedly admitted that he had been sent to Shanghai by Chinese Communists to murder Mr. Johnson and blame the Japanese.
The sensational Japanese version is that the Chinese were expected to release mines in the Luzon's path and attack the gunboat from the bank with artillery and machine-guns.
There is considerable comment on the fact that no vessel has been mined on the Yangtze for over a year, but within a week of the announcement of Mr. Johnson's projected trip the Japanese claimed that two of their vessels had just been mined.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 14
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