FORCE MAY BE USED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21361, 2 June 1939, Page 9

FORCE MAY BE USED

Japanese Troops for Amoy Support For Threats Control of International Settlement United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, May 31. A message from Shanghai states that the Dome! News Agency reports that. Japanese reinforcements are en route to Amoy. It is believed that they are intended to support threats to obtain control of the International Settlement by force, especially in view of the deadlock on Kulangsu. Japan has sent another protest to the Kulangsu authorities repeating her demand for effective control of “the terrorist elements.” A formal reply to the British protest against the Japanese boarding the Ranpura on May 23 is still awaited. Meanwhile the British Naval Attache in Tokio has received a communication from the Japanese Ministry of Marine to the effect that the Ranpura was stopped, as there were doubts regarding her identity. TYPHOON SCATTERS TRANSPORTS JAPANESE TROOPS DELAYED United Press Association—By Electric Tel egrapb —Copyrlgh t HONG KONG, May 31. A typhoon scattered 20 Japanese troop transports that were heading for Swatow. Four British coastal steamers which stood by for three days ready to evacuate Europeans from Swatow have been recalled. ARREST OF SUPPOSED ATTACHE JAPANESE REFUSE TO DISCLOSE NAME United Press Association—By Electrle Telegraph—Copyright HONG KONG, May 31. The Japanese ar rented an unknown foreigner, wearing a shabby dress, in the Christian church at Kalgan. They refuse to disclose his name and says he claims to be an attache who crossed th Sino-Japanese lines from South China. British circles are of opinion that the man is probably LieutenantColonel C. R. spear, military attache to the British Embassy in China, who is reported missing. British officials at Shanghai confirm the arrest of Lieutenant Colonel Spears at Kalgan. He started a tour of the Communist armies in the interior of china three months ago, intending to filter through the Japanese lines to Peking. The Japanese declare he is being detained for Interrogation. JAPANESE DEMAND SURRENDER OF ASSASSINS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 2, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. The Japanese Consul at Tientsin has sent a Note to the British ConsulGeneral demanding the surrender before noon on June 7 of the assassins of Cheg Shikang, general manager of the Federal Reserve Bank. Failure to comply will result in “independent Japanese action.” it is alleged that Cheg Shikang was killed in the British Concession on April 9.