WITHDRAWAL OF FORCES
JAPAN’S REQUEST TO POWERS [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. September 7, 1 p.m.) SHANGHAI, September 6. An unimpeachable source reports that Japan has asked England and France to withdraw their army and navy from China, on their own initiative, in order to avoid untoward incidents. The Vice-Foreign Minister (Mr. Sawada) told the English. French, Polish and German ambassadors that Japan was gravely concerned at the Powers’ attitude toward the Sino-Japanese war, and he drew attention to the desirability of eliminating all causes of incidents between the belligerents.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1939, Page 8
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