BRITONS ARRESTED
INCIDENT AT SHANGHAI j Received Dec. 4. 11.5 p.m. I NEW YORK. Dec. 3. J The United Press of America’s! Shanghai correspondent says that; Britons and Japanese- ! mtrolled ■ police clashed outside the International Settlement. The police fired ever 50 shots into the air and arrested several unarmed British soldiers and one civilian. The cause is obscure. British armed troops and municipal police arrived and negotiated their release. BRITISH WITHDRAWN INFANTRY AT TIENTSIN ♦ JAPANESE AGENCY REPORT. Received Dec. 4, 6.30 p.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 3. . The Domei news agency states that ' the first units of the Durham Light I Infantry nave been withdrawn from j Tientsin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 8
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