The Archive · 1937

Insult to Japanese

MARINE

Small Boy Puts His Tongue Out at Sentry mor international "incident" was narrowly" averted on April 26 when a emall boy from the Public and Thomas Hanbury" School for Boys who was passing the headquarters of the Japanese Naval Land ug Party took it Into his head to put out his tongue at one of the Sentries standing guard outside. The sentry was about to seize the boy when a Japanese member of the Shanghai Municipal Police took hold of the youth, 'A report was Inter made to the police with regard to the affair, and Vice-Admiral K. Okawachi, commander of the Japanese Naval Land-Ing Party, asked for the boy's parents to-go to his office and apologize for their son's behaviour. "This request was complied with, and the incident was then considered as closed. The boy Is an Traq subject under British protection.

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