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(From Our Own Correspondent)
Haiphong, To day.
AMERICAN GIRL
High-handed action by the commander of a Jap- TAKEN ILL IN
anese warship against a British merchant vessel was revealed here this morning. Shells AIR FRANCE PLANE were fired across her bows and she was kept in Japanese naval control for 18 hours.
Throwing new light on the Reuter report from Chungking, publisher in the "China Mail" The yesterday, of alleged spying ac- tivities by Italian priests, statement was issued this after- noon by the Franciscan Procura- tion in Hong Kong.
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The priests, it will be recalled,
were reported by Reuter (quoting
British ship was the "Cambay Prince," owned by Sulleiman Kar Mohammed, of Bombay, and she was stopped by a Japanese warship off the Ladrone Islands a few miles south of Hong Kong.
BOUND FOR H. K.
Miss Enid Sanders, 20-year- old American girl, whose parents reside in Shanghai, was taken ill on board the Air France liner during the trip from Hanoi to Hong Kong this morning and was rushed to hospital by ambu- lance as soon as the plane alight-
the Central News Agency) to have Exceeding their rights, which are confined to stop-led at Kai Tack.
been accused by Chinese at Laohoku, in north-west Hupeh, of espionage activities on behalf of the Japanese. They were said to have despatched from their messages by wireless mission.
INSTALLED BY MILITARY
The Franciscan Procuration
ping British ships to ascertain their identity, It is understood that Miss the Japanese man-of-war boarded the "Cam-Sanders was suffering from an bay Prince" and, holding her eighteen hours, internal complaint which deve- took photographs of a large cargo of trucks on loped acutely during the air the deck of the vessel.
try
voyage.
The trucks were being trans-against transport of these vehi-
to China by photographic Maru" took several pictures of in ported from Hong Kong to Hai- cles
evidence, is indicated by the re- the trucks, some of which are Hong Kong states that the wireless phong, for transport to Yun-peated action of Japanese in tak marked with the Red Cross, while set in the Mission was actually in-nanfu via Hanoi. The incident ing photographs of the ship-the others appear to be for mili- stalled by the Chinese military au- occurred some little time ago,ments.
tary purposes. Our Own Cor- Japanese from the "Nagasaki respondent.
thorities a month ago.
Certain elements, obviously irres- but has only just been officially ponsible, lodged the accusation of confirmed.
are
espionage against the priests, who Several hundred trucks have now being protected by the been landed at Haiphong in re- Chinese military.
cent weeks from Hong Kong, priests had promised to leave China and about 300 still remain to be
The previous
report that
within a week and to hand
the
over
transported to China. is. That the Japanese intend to
up their protests to the authorities in French Indo-China
Mission affairs to the Chinese, branded by the Franciscan Procura-back tion here as quite groundless,
Britain Holds Key To
Far East Situation
an-
London, To-day. "It is of course one thing for Japan to denounce the Nine- Power Treaty and quite other thing for her to get away with it," says the "Manchester Guardian" in a leader. this morning.
"The United States Govern- ment is known to be particular- ly determined that she shall not do so, and it is obvious that both Britain and the United States are in a position to take retaliatory measures.
Key to the situation is ob- Alously, Britain that Britain which, under the National is yielding to 88- gression all over the world.
"If Britain can be persund- :. ed by threats to agree to re- vision of the Nine-Power Treaty, and to recognise the 'new order in East Asia, might not the United States fall into line?
"The only policy that can have success is a show of firm- ness in China (and in Europe), and to co-operate closely with the United States Government
"As long as Britain and the United States maintain a com- mon front, in the Far East, Japan can do little, and in this way we may yet save our in.......... terests in China and, what is more important, China her self."-Reuter.
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