INVASION OF ISLAND
ALLEGED ACTION BY JAPANESE CANADIAN POLICE INVESTIGATE SETTLERS SAID TO BE DISPOSSESSED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Rec. December 3, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 2. The Vancouver correspondent of the United Press states that the police are investigating reports that armed Japanese fishing-boats invaded Galiano Island (British Columbia), dispossessed the settlers and established a fish curing plant, which is surrounded by an armed guard. The Japanese are stated to have forced the residents to make a detour to avoid being fired on. >
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Southland Times, Issue 23990, 4 December 1939, Page 7
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85INVASION OF ISLAND Southland Times, Issue 23990, 4 December 1939, Page 7
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