TENSE INCIDENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 103, 4 May 1938, Page 7

TENSE INCIDENT

THE SHANGHAI ZONE BRITISH AND JAPANESE SOLDIERS [By Telegraph—Prr«w Association —Copy right. J SHANGHAI, May 2. As a sequel to a hand grenade allegedly aimed without casualty al a Japanese lorry in Nanking Road in the International Settlement, a tense situation has arisen. Brigadier-Gen-eral Telfer-Smollett posted a detachment of steel-helmeted Scutu* th Highlanders at the spot with mach.ne guns in consequence of Japanese gendarmes virtually taking po_j2scion of the street overnight, half a dozen entering the Louza police station, staffed by British officers. The Brig-adier-General complained that the British defence sector had been violated and ordered the Seafonhs not. to vacate the police station \.*i le Lhe Japanese remain. A report that 2000 Chinese guei.has have entered the foreign aiea a: heightened the tension. AGREEMENT REACHED SHANGHAI, Miy 2. The incident ended with an agree* ment and the Seaforth ITighlrnih is and Japanese gendarmes were withdrawn. TURNED BACK EY JAPANESE IXIRRY LOAD OF BRITISH TROOPS. Received May 3, 11.3) p.n . LONDON. May X The Shanghai correspondent of the British United Press Association reports that the Japanese turned back a lorry-load of British troops seeking to cross the Garden Bridge into Honkew, where a British gunboat had just berthed. The Japanese followed the lorry into the British Consulate compound and brushed aside a sergeantmajor who was trying to stop them. The British soldiers thereupon alighted and fixed bayonets. The Japanese withdraw t) their own territory. JAPANESE DRAW BLANK BRITISH STEAMER RELEASED Received May 3, 11.50 p.m. LONDON, May 3. Japanese warships released tht British steamer Kingyuan. which they intercepted in the belief tl.at she was carrying 30,000 nickel ingots, formerly the property ol the Nationalist Government’s mint at Shanghai. JAPANESE MOBILISATION Received May 3. 11.30 p.m. TOKIO May 3. Though it had been hitherto assumed that the National Mobilisation Bill had not been utilised in the present Chinese conflict, the Government is immediately enforcing the clause* and is mobilising personal, industrial and commodity resources to ensure the most effective display of the entire force of the nation.