ORDERS TO AIRMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 13

ORDERS TO AIRMEN

WRONG CAE ATTACKED OUTRAGE UNPARALLELED " APOLOGIES INSUFFICIENT " J>y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Reroivcd August 27, 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, August 27 The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says that tho Japanese seemingly believed that tho President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek, intended to travel to Shanghai, so orders were issued to attack all motor-cars on tho road, in spite of the fact that thero Avcre no Chinese troops for miles around. Tho Times states in a leading article concerning the wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen that the outrage is unparalleled. Tho claim that it is accidental does not acquit the Japanese Government from responsibility. Apologies are insufficient reparation. Tho status of an Ambassador is sacrosanct, adds tho journal, and nothing excuses its violation. Tho outrage serves to underline tho implications of an intolerable situation. The British Government is assured of tho strongest public support for whatever appropriate action is taken.

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

POSTS IN MANY COUNTRIES / SIR H. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN Sir Hughe Montgomery KnatchbullHugessen, British diplomat, was born in March, 1886, and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. His father was tlio Rev. It. B. Knatchbull-Hugos-sen, a brother of the fourth Lord Brabourne, and his mother was a daughter of Sir Alexander Montgomery. Entering the Foreign Office in 1908 as a clerk, lie was appointed a temporary attache to the Embassy at Constantinople a year later. Returning to the Foreign Oflico in 1911, ho was one of the officials in attendance on foreign representatives at tho Coronation of

King George V. After serving in the Great War, he was given the rank of second secretary and appointed a member of tho British diplomatic staff at the Paris Peace Conference, in January, 193 9. At tho end of 1919 ho was appointed first secretary at the Legation at The Hague and awarded the C.M.G. After being acting-Minister there for several periods ho was transferred to the Paris Embassy in 1923. As first secretnry he was kept for months busily occupied with details of tho German reparations and other post-war problems which were holding Paris, London and Berlin in a state of tension. Raised to tho rank of counsellor, he was appointed to Brussels in 1926 and was frequently in full charge of tho Legation until 1930, when he was made Minister to tho Baltic States. JThence, in 1934, ho was transferred to Persia, and in January, 1930, was created K.C.M.G. A Imonth later it was announced that ho had been appointed Ambassador to China.

BOYCOTT OF GOODS JAPANESE TRADE SUFFERS WOOLLEN MILLS' OUTPUT (Received August 27, 5.5 p.m.) TOKIO, August 27 Tho Japaneso Foreign OfFico is receiving reports that Japaneso trade is suffering severely from tho Chinese merchants' boycott throughout tho South Seas countries. Businessmen aro seeking means to counteract tho boycott. Leading woollen manufacturers have decided, owing to tho accumulation of stocks and the sagging of prices, that it is necessary to increase tho voluntary curtailment of output, which at present is from 20 to 30 per cent.

BLOCKADE OF COAST JAPANESE EXPLANATION (Rccoivcd August 27, 0.5 p.m.) TOKIO, August 27 Tho Navy Office, in explaining tlio partial blockado of tho China coast, says that a considerable amount of shipping coming from tho south-west has boon carrying troops and supplies for the Chinese forces around Shanghai, which tho blockade is intended to prevent. There will bo no interference with food supplies and commercial cargoes, it is stated, because Japan is punishing tho Chinese Army, not tho people. FIRST FOOD RIOTS REPULSED WITH BLOODSHED SHANGHAI, August 10 Food riots among refugees have already begun. Several raids on trucks of flour have been ropulsed with bloodshed. But as tho daily shortage of food makes .tho hunger more acute the menaco within tho Settlement increases. Since the withdrawal of the police from outlying stations to-day tho first line of defence for tho Settlement is Soochow Creek, next to the British Consulate, where a strong stand is possible.