"GRAVE INSULT"
ARREST OF JAPANESE
COUNTER PROTESTS
DISPUTE WITH AMERICANS
(Received July '10, 10 a.m.)
SHANGHAI, July 9.
In connection with the arrest by United States marines of 16 armed Japanese in plain clothes in the defence sector "of the International Settlement, a spokesman of the Japanese Embassy at Shanghai, Mr. Ken Tsurumi, said that the Japanese, protest required an American apology which it was hoped would be forthcoming. "There is no question of the seriousness of the case, which is regarded as a grave insult to the Japanese army," he said. "However, Ido not believe that either the Japanese or the American authorities would pursue such an unwise policy as to aggravate the case until it affects the whole relationship between the two countries."
The counsellor of the American Embassy at Nanking, Mr, W. R. Peck, is asking the /Japanese to explain the reason why two Japanese tanks crossed the marine sector yesterday, He is also directing attention to the "discourtesy" of the Japanese in not giving advance notice of a visit by LieutGeneral Ntshio to the Park' Hotel and also the discourtesy in connection with recent cases of .truckloads of Japanese soldiers being transported through the marine sector.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1940, Page 6
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