ARRESTS UNJUSTIFIED.
JAPANESE SALVATIONISTS. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Aug. 8. The conviction that an investigation would clearly establish that the suspicion of espionage against the seven Salvationists arrested in Japan was without foundation was expressed by Lieut.-Commissioner J. Evan Smith, Territorial Commander of the Army in New Zealand. He emphasised the goodwill and practical sympathy the Imperial Household and the Japanese Government had demonstrated over many years for the Army’s work in Japan and spoke in glowing terms of tlie great service given by the late Commissioner Gunpei Yamamuro and of the high esteem in which he and his colleagues had been held bv all classes. It could only be concluded, he said, that there had been misapprehension of the Salvation Army’6 purpose and ideals on the part of the present Government in Japan, and that investigation of the charges would result in the speedy release of those arrested.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 6
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149ARRESTS UNJUSTIFIED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 6
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