SIX RELEASED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 209, 2 August 1940, Page 7

SIX RELEASED.

BRITISH SUBJECTS IN JAPAN. LONDON, Aug.. 1. It is authoritatively, stated that Japan has now released six Britons, but seven are still under arrest. The Domei News Agency stated that Mr Reiman Morin, chief of the Tokio office of the Associated Press of Great Britain, was questioned regarding dispatches reporting the death of Mr J. M. Cox and accused of intimating that it was not a case of suicide. He was released after several hours.

Many of the British subjects who havo been arrested have been devoting years of their life to improving relations between Japan and this country, stated a London commentator. The only charge under which they could have possih'v laid themselves open is that they sficceeded too well in their goodwill mission to suit the tastes of anti-British extremists. The arrests have obviously a political significance. It is also pointed out here that members of the Japan Society in London are not treated with suspicion, nor is the organisation banned as a hotbed of espionage. .SHANGHAI INCIDENTS. Japanese gendarmes have disarmed and are detaining three Settlement Chinese detectives in steel vests who were responding to a robbery alarm off the Yuyuen Road, which is in the disputed cxtra-Settlcment area (states a Shanghai message). The gendarmes ordered the uniformed municipal police immediately to leave the extra-Set-tlement area. A Russian member of the French Concession police who was armed with a tommy-gun and was detailed to guard the American Shanghai Evening Post office disappeared, after which an unexploded bomb was found under the Post presses. It is not known whether the Russian placed the bomb there or

whether others kidnapped the Russian. lilt is authoritatively stated in Hong Kong that a Butterfield Swire steamer has been detained at Canton as a result of the deadlock between Britain and Japan. Japan is demanding the right to station inspectors along tho Hong Ivong border, across which, it is claiming, supplies are still passing to China.