BRITISH ESPIONAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7

BRITISH ESPIONAGE.

FURTHER ALLEGATIONS. TOKIO, Aug. 2. Tho Asahi Shimbun says the Japanese gendarmerie authorities are indignant over the “fabricated versions” given by British Embassy officials of the case of the journalist. Mr J. M. Cox, who allegedly committed suicide. It says the Embassy is open to suspicion that it is a liotbed of British espionage in Japan. The Nichi Nichi Shimbun says it is doubted whether the British will easily enforce the reported retaliatory threats such as the arrest of Japanese residents in England, abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty, withdrawal of the Ambassador from Tokio, or reopening the Burma Road, because of the present international situation. vh Unidentified raiders entered the residence of Mr Kenneth Selbv-Walker, Reuter's Far East manager, last night, states a Shanghai despatch. They examined the documents in his desk, but stole nothing. Dir Selby-Walker flew to Japan on Tuesday in connection with Mr Cox’s death.