Tokio Prepares For Tientsin Talks

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 7

Tokio Prepares For Tientsin Talks

INDIGNITIES CONTINUE

MILITARY AUTHORITIES BREAK OFF RELATIONS

LONDON, July 9. The Tokio correspondent of The Times says that the Anglo-Japanese conference concerning Tientsin is expected to open on either Wednesday or Thursday. The Japanese military and civilian delegates held a preliminary conference at the week-end rnd drew up proposals for submission to Cabinet on Tuesday.

Sixty thousand people participated in an anti-British rally at Kobe, Japan. Hostile resolutions passed by the rally are to be cabled to Mr Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, and Sir Archibald ClarkKerr (British Ambassador to China). Similar meetings were held at Morioya and Peiping. The Tientsin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that all is quiet but that the Japanese sentries are annoying Britons by sending them back to the end of the queues in the examination sheds and giving preference to Chinese.

The British and Japanese military authorities have broken off relations. Lieutenant-General Homma, commander of the Japanese garrison at Tientsin, refused to received Major-General Grasett, officer commanding the British troops in China, who is making a tour of inspection.

The Japanese have interfered with shipping on the Hai river. They held up the P. and O. Vessel Soudan for a

The British Consul at Tientsin, Sir James Jamieson, is reported to have apologised to the Japanese army authorities regarding a river collision in which the escort vessel Lowestoft and a Japanese army motor-boat were involved, damaging the latter. The Japanese, in view of the fact that the collision was purely accidental, accepted the apology and did not demand damages.