ARRESTED BRITONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 7

ARRESTED BRITONS.

DISCUSSIONS PROCEEDING

(British Official Wireless.) Received August 9, 10.30 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 8. Questioned in the House of Commons on the arrests of the British subjects in Japan the Foreign Undersecretary (.Mr R. A. Butler) said the British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) had had a number of discussions with tho Japanese Minister ol Foreign Affairs (Mr Y Matsuoka), and it was hoped that proceedings in connection with these cases would be expedited. It is authoritatively stated in London that any suggestion that war materials are still proceeding to China by the Burma route in contravention of the recent understanding between the British and Japanese Governments is devoid of foundation. It is pointed out that medical supplies are not included in the categories of goods the transport of which has been restricted. These categories were described in a House of Commons answer by Mr Butler as motor spirit, iron and steel, railway track material, rolling stock and component parts, motor vans, lorries, trailers, chassis and the parts thereof, arms, ammunition and the parts thereof, and military explosives. A Hong Kong message says the authorities are refusing entry of the vessels Kaiju Maru ■ and Shirogani Maru as a result of a recent dispute regarding navigation of the Pearl River.