SINGAPORE SPIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20485, 11 December 1934, Page 1

SINGAPORE SPIES.

Government Well Informed

on Matter. DELICATE SITUATION. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 11, 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 10. The Government has received several dispatches from the Governor of the Straits Settlements in connection with the Singapore espionage case, but a statement is unlikely to be made pending further investigations. The “Daily Herald” says: "Details of the series of raids and arrests at Singapore, cabled to London, are giving rise to allegations of Japanese espionage and have caused a most delicate situation. “The sensation began when Mr Nishimura, a leading Japanese business man of Singapore, dropped dead last week while being questioned at the offices of the Singapore C.I.D. “ It was then revealed that the police possessed documents implicating two Japanese secret intelligence officers who were visiting Singapore. “Raids on hotels and houses followed. “The situation is the more difficult because twenty-one British warships are now at Singapore for manoeuvres to test the defence of the station.”