JAPANESE RUMOURS.
PROMPT DENIALS. TOKIO, June 13. The Foreign Office is investigating a Netherlands report that a naval ’plane fired on a Japanese fishing boat and is also investigating unconfirmed reports that the British have landed troops in- the Dutch East Indies'. London and Dutch sources deny the report. A Netherlands Government statement deniee German radio reports that 200 British troops have landed in Java. “There are no British troops in the Indies. We have no intention of changing our established policy of maintaining the status quo of the Lidies.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 168, 15 June 1940, Page 8
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