JAPANESE RAID

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 2

JAPANESE RAID

BRITISH VIEW, “VERY SERIOUS.’ (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. > Received December 7, IAO p.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 6. A high British Settlement official regards the police raid on the Great Eastern Hotel as enormously serious. Twelve Japanese Consular policemen, armed with rifles and pistols, without warning the Settlement police, dashed to the hotel in fast cars, disdaining the traffic lights, and arrested three Chinamen and a woman. They took them to Hongkew, not giving the woman time to dress, but made her travel in her underclothing. The quartette were released after an interrogation lasting an hour. It is regarded as essential that the English and American Consuls take a firm stand. The British Cons jl-Genenal, after making representations to the Japanese regarding the bombing of Wuhu, declares that London must originate further developments. The Nanking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Chinese casualties on the steamer Tatung are not known, but over 100 were mutilated and burned. Some were half-drown-ed and sent to hospital. The Telegraph's correspondent at Hong Kong says a packed audience heard the first air raid precaution lecture. It is learned that any one failing to obscure his lights will be fined 1000 dollars. Seventy thousand gas masks will be available. The population of 1,000,000 are mainly illiterate and easily put in a panic.