JAPAN AND CHINA
SHANGHAI FRACAS JAPANESE ULTIMATUM. -Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, Friday. Rear-Admiral Shiosawa, Commander of the First Japanese Fleet in Chinese waters, has sent an ultimatum to the Chinese demanding a satisfactory reply to the Consul-General’s protest regarding the recent fracas in the International Settlement, also the dissolution of anti-Japanese associations. With the arrival of a. Japanese fleet from Kure to-morrow, the largest aggregation of war vessels of any one Power will be assembled at Shanghai, The Japanese force then will consist of three cruisers, one aircraft carrier, a flotilla of destroyers and two gunboats. There are at present nine hundred Japanese marines ashore and Tune hundred more are arriving. /* The theory is advanced that fhe Japanese may eventually decide to take over the whole city, when the British and American portions of the Shanghai Defence Force may be in an unequivocal position.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 January 1932, Page 5
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