SHARP JAPANESE PROTEST
AGAINST BRITISH ACTION REQUEST NO REPETITION (Received 11.4 a.m.) United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. HONG KONG. February 3. While Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble and Admiral Yarneli the British and American C>mmanders-in-Chief in China respectively were paying a courtesy call on Admiral Oikawa aboard the warship Idumo the Japanese sharply protested to the British authorities at Tsingtao against the British action regarding the tramp steamer Yungslieng demanding an immediate explanation as “the imwaarantable action” is liamperng the Japanese polc-y at Tsingtao and requesting no repetition of it. On Febraury 4 the J'romei News Agency’s Tsingtao correspondent reports that alter the Japanese had seized the tramp steamer Yungslieng on suspicion of not declaring a quantity of currency silver and bullion intended for the Chinese, the cruiser Birmingham arrived anrl landed an armed party and confiscated the Yungsheng’s papers in cider to prevent the investigation and would not allow Customs officers to board the Birmingham. The Japanese also seized two Norwegian steamers.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14063, 9 February 1939, Page 6
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166SHARP JAPANESE PROTEST Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14063, 9 February 1939, Page 6
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