SEVEN CONVICTED
BRITONS ARRESTED IN
JAPAN
TOKIO, September 30.
The Minister of Justice, Mr. Kazami, announced that seven of ten British residents who wex-e arrested for alleged espionage have been convicted. Their sentences will be announced later.
A Tokio message published yesterday stated that ten British subjects who had been under arrest since last Friday were indicted on charges of violation of the Military Secrets Protection Law and'the naval and criminal codes of the Military Resources Protection Law, while several others are being examined. One Japanese has been indicted and fifty others warned on account of pro-British activities. Those indicted include a retired captain, Charles H. James, and Messrs. George A. James, Ernest W. James, Michael Linger. Hamish McNaughton, Henry Blyth, John Drummond, William T. Charles, and T. B. Willey.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 81, 2 October 1940, Page 9
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