TO PREVENT SEIZURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 97, 27 April 1939, Page 7

TO PREVENT SEIZURE

NAVAL GUARDS ABOARD BRITISH SHIPS IN CHINESE PORTS. Received April 26, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, April 26. The Daily Telegraph's Hongkong correspondent states that ViceAdmiral Sir Percy Noble has placed naval guards on British ships trading at Hongkong, Jainan, Swatow, Amoy and Foochow. It is revealed that Japanese boarded the British vessel Siestan at Amoy but were unable to seize her because of the presence of British naval men. The Canton Maru, with 200 soldiers aboard, arrived from Formosa, bringing the officers and crew of the Sagres, which the Japanese confiscated. A message received on April 10 stated that a Japanese warship, despite the intervention of the British destroyer Thracian, interrupted the British steamer Sagres loading Government supplies in Chuan Bay and escorted her to the Pescadores Islands. VISIT TO LONDON i i CHIANG’S PERSONAL ADVISER. Received April 26, 10.20 p.m. LONDON. April 26. The Daily Telegraph's Hongkong correspondent says that General Chiang Kai-shek's personal adviser, the Australian, Mr. W. H. Donald, is reported to have gone Io London sej cretly by air to confer with the British j Government. I ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN GOODS PUBLICLY BURNED. Received April 26, 5.5 p.m. SHUNGKING, April 25. | The anti-British campaign at Nanking continues and hundreds of cases of British cigarettes and other goods have been publicly burned.