DEPORTATION DESIRED.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18950, 20 May 1933, Page 5

DEPORTATION DESIRED.

REQUEST OF MANCHUKUO

JOURNALIST AT HARBIN. AUTHORITIES’ RESENTMENT. United Press Assn.—Eiec. Tel. Copyright SHANGHAI, May 19. Extraordinary interest. Is centred In the case of M/. Lenox Simpson, a British Journalist, editor and publisher of the Harbin Herald, whom the Manchukuo authorities desire to deport. They declare that he Is antiJapanese and antl-Manchukuo. Also they allege that he is in the pay of the Soviet. The authorities requested the British Consul to deport Mr. Simpson, but he refused to do so. In the meantime,. Mr. Simpson has taken refuge in the British Consulate. A strong protest has' been entered by the Consul against the proposed deportation. The Manchukuo authorities, however, declare that although Britain has not reoognlsed Manchukuo they have allowed the Consulate to remain “out of sheer hospitality.” They reiterate their Intention to deport Mr. Simpson at the first opportunity. Mr. Simpson Is a brother of the late Mr. Bertram Lenox Simpson, a wellknown British author, who was assassinated In Tientsin toward the end of 1930.

Mr. Bertram Lennox Simpson, whose assassination is referred to, edited a political newspaper. His action called forth a strong protest from the Nanking Government which requested the British authorities to deport him. He was, however, fatally wounded by three Chinese who entered his house and shot him, and he died in November, 1930, after lingering from September 30. The assassins escaped.