JAPAN’S THREAT

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1939, Page 5

JAPAN’S THREAT

AN ULTIMATUM

TO ISOLATE CONCESSION.

(United Press Association—By Electrii Telegraph—Copyright). SHANGHAI, June 8. The Japanese have sent a furthe. ultimatum to authorities of the Bri tisli Concession at Tientsin threaten ing to erect barriers and isolate tin concession unless the murderers of M: . Cheng Shikang, branch manager of tin Federal Reserve Bank, are hanctev over before June 10. SECOND BRITISHER DIES. SHANGHAI, June 8. An Englishman, Mr H. McAllister belonging to the small firm of Mr R M. Tinkler, who yesterday died from wounds inflicted by the Japanese, is reported to have died in mysterious circumstances. He was found collapsed over a tabk in the mill office at Pootupg and did not regain consciousness. A preliminary examination has revealed no signs of violence. Britain has protested to Tokyo against the inadequate fulfilment of the Japanese undertaking of the armed guard at the mills, and states that it takes a serious view of the death of Mr Tinkler, who, it is confirmed, died of bayonet wounds. A Japanese naval spokesman alleges that Mr Tinkler, who was involved in the disorders, was disarmed by a Japanese marine. He was then surrounded by Japanese with, fixed bayonets, when he may have come in contact with a bayonet, hut it is denied that he was wilfully stabbed. BRITISH CRUISER. FIRES ON JAPANESE PLANE. TOKIO, June 8. . The Domei News Agency reports that a British cruiser fired ten shots at a Japanese aeroplane when the plane was flying at a height of 2000 feet, above the South China Sea, eastward of Hong Kong. Several of the shots fired burst . within a hundred yards of the plane, which was not damaged. _

The pilot of the plane declares that he sighted the cruiser in the vicinity of Swatow, and he clearly recognised the British flag painted on its side.

SOVIET AND JAPAN. , FRONTIER TROOPS CLASH. . TOKIO, June 7. The News Agency reports, state that 12 Manchukuoans were killed and 20 were injured, in a frontier clash at Chientao. BRITISH CONSUL'S REQUEST. (Received this day at 9.15 aim.) SHANGHAI, June 8. Ihe British Consul-General requested the Japanese to take immediate measures to protect British property, particularly the suppression of antiBritish agitation at Pootung, and the' prevention of intimidation of Chinese workers in British mills there. PEACE SUGGESTION TO CHINA. DENIAL BY AMBASSADOR. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) SHANGHAI, June, 8. The British Ambassador, Sir A. Clark Kerr, officially denied that a peace suggestion has been made to General Kai-shek.