BITTER COMPLAINT
TREATMENT IN JAPAN. AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS. “INTOLERABLE SUSPICION.” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 21, 11.40 a.m. BRISBANE, April 21. Australian passengers on the Nankin, who have been touring the East, bitterly complained on the vessel’s arrival here of the aggressive and insulting attitude adopted by the Japanese police and Customs officers in Moji harbour, the first and last port of call for Australian shipping. The passengers stated that during the showing of their passports on arrival at Moji they were treated like a shipload of coolies. The Nankin was delayed for two hours while the water police questioned a passenger who was seen with a camera. He was put through a severe examination and was not released until the films were developed and showed only scenic pictures A woman who could not leave her cabin owing to an accident was ordered to be brought to the lonngo without delay, the water police refusing to see her in her cabin. Mr G. \V. Simpson, former Public Service Commissioner of Western Australia, said the acute suspicion of the Japanese concerning their fortified zones was becoming intolerable, and it was now almost more than one’s lifo was worth to take photographs.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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201BITTER COMPLAINT Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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