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STIENTSIN CONSULATE RAID: VIGOROUS SOVIET PROTEST Demand For Restoration Of All Documents ACTION TAKEN IN MOSCOW AND IN TOKYO

Nanking, To-day.

The Soviet Ambassador, M. Bogomoloff, has lodged a protest with the Japanese charge d'affaires in Nanking demanding that the Japanese authori ties grant immunity to the Soviet Consulate-Gen- eral in Tientsin.

From the same source it is learned that the Japanese charge d'affaires, Mr. Hikada, has under- taken to transmit the request of the Soviet Am- bassador to the competent Japanese authorities in Tientsin.

From Moscow it is reported that the Soviet Ambassador

has

in

in Tokyo WAR OFFICE

been instructed to protest against the raid on the Soviet Con- sulate in Tientsin, demanding im mediate arrest of the alleged as-

CONSULTS SCHOOL

sailants, return of property seized ON SHORTAGE

and compensation.

The Soviet holds the Japanese OF OFFICERS

Government responsible because

Tientsin is under Japanese occupa- tion-Trans-Ocean and Reuter.

SHANGHAI REPORT

Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu (left) and M. Stomoniakov, acting Com- missar for Foreign Affairs in Moscow. A strong protest was lodged with Mr. Shigemitsu yesterday regarding the Tientsin Incident.

N ARMY

ITALIAN

MANOEUVRES

Turkish Visitor To Germany

Berlin To-day. Chancellor Hitler yesterday re- Rome, To-day. ceived the Turkish Minister for

The Minister has been staying for the last ten days in where he inspected the latest being watch-velopments in transport and

It has been announced from the Italian Army manoeuvres began Public Works, All Cetinkaya, who War Office that at a meeting of the yesterday in the province of Udine, was accompanied by the Turkish Public Schools Careers Association, in North Italy, between the River Ambassador. Shanghai, To-day. held at the invitation of the Army Itagliamento and the River Piave, A message from Vladivostok

Council, the question of the Army an area which became famous dur- states that the Russian Commodore as a career was discussed.

ing the Great War. there is in receipt of instructions Lt-Gen. Sir William Furse, pre-

"The manoeuvres from the War Council in Moscow to sident of the Association, was in fed by German, Hungarian, Austrian dustrial enterprises in Berlin, be in readiness, now that a crisis the chair. The schools represented is developing in the Far East. Do-Dao.

FRENCH AMBASSADOR

PROTESTS

Paris, To-day.

were-Aldenham, Bedbord, Bryan- ston, Cheltenham, Cranleigh, Dul wich, Eton, Harrow, Malvern, Marl- borough, Repton, Rugby, Shrews- bury, Tonbridge and Wrekin.

Maj. Gen. E K Squires, Director The French Ambassador in Tokyo

of Staff Duties, explained the has been instructed to protest to methods of entry into the Army the the Japanese Government regarding conditions of service, and the pros- the alleged aggression (

pects. During a general discus- committed by Japanese troops in Tientsin against sion, various points raised by the French sentries and also regarding |

school representatives, including

the interruption of telephone.com- the cost of living in the Army, were munication between the French con dealt with.

cession and the arsenal according to papers here, which add that the For-

Higher Pay or Lower Standard

eign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, has- -Such a conference cannot fail to already been in touch with the Ja-be helpful to the Army. No body panese Ambassador in Paris, Mr. of men is more closely in touch Sngimura, on the subject. Trans- with the rising generation than the Ocean.

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