Japan Will Slay in Hainan

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 5

Japan Will Slay in Hainan

Will Not Leave While Chiang Kai-shek Remains PREVENTING ARMS RUNNING United Press Association.—Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 9.40 p.m. TOKIO, Feb. 17. The newspaper Asahi says Japan wiil occupy Hainan Island as long as General Chiang Kai-shek resists. “Japan must remain in South China while the British and French continuo to aid China,” says the article. General Kanazawa declared armed junks have been transhipping arms at sea and. bringing them to Hainan to await a favourable moment to run them to the mainland. This is now impossible. JOINT PROTEST BY U.S., BRITAIN AND FRANCE AMBASSADOR’S SUDDEN RETURN TO LONDON LONDON, Feb. 16. Informed circles believe that one of the reasons for the United States Ambassador, Air. J. P. Kennedy’s, sudden return from America a fortnight earlier than scheduled was due to tho American desire for a joint English-French-United States demarche regarding the Japanese occupation of Hainan Island. PUPPET OFFICIALS SHOT AT SHANGHAI SHANGHAI, Feb. 16. Assassins shot dead a Chinese judge and detective employed by the Japanese ■Administration. JAPANESE THREAT TO RUSSIA TOKIO, Feb. 17. The Foreign Office has instructed the Japanese Ambassador in Aloscow to press for an immediate settlement of the fisheries dispute. Japan will take “unreserved appropriate measures” unless Russia reconsiders her attitude.