In connection with the telegram through the Domei News Agency, published by the "North-China Daily News" on Wednesday, a. statement from the French Consulate-General was Issued on Friday as follow:
"The telegram from Peiping from the Domei News Agency published in the newspapers of June 3, stated that Mr. Muto, first secretary of the Japanese Embassy, had protested "to the French Embassy against certain acts lof violence which had been committed by men belonging to the Embassy guard in Japanese establishments, "Questioned on the subject, the spokesman of the French Embassy declared that this information was Inncourate, The French Embassy has received no other visit than that of a junior official of the Japanese Embassy, who reported that a French soldier Had stolen a doll worth forty. cents in a Japanese cafe, The official added that his ambassador did not even claim the return of the toy. Questioned by the French authorities, the owner of the cats said that he had not even laid a com~ Plaint over the pretended larceny,"
Military Inquiry Peiping, June 5.
'A military court of inguiry, it learned, has been established Maj-Gen, Arthur W. Bartholomew, General Officer Commanding the British forces In China, to investigate Japanese allegations concerning the Feeent death of Kisaku Sasaki, a 'Japanese officer attached to the Manchoukuo Ministry of War, 'The allegations ere contained in documents suh~ wed to the British Embassy br wwe Japanese Embassy. Investigat'.as "into the affair, however, are not yet complete, The Japanese authorities allege that Sasaki, whose body was found in the street outside a cafe, had been murdered by a British soldier belong~ ing to the Embassy Guard, The Japanese were not satisfied with the British reply concerning the affair, said Major Imai, the Japa military altaché here, in an interview There were no new developments, ho said, The matter was still being investigated, and the Japanese hoped for an "honourable settlement British Reply Peiping, June 2 A. statement issued this afternoon by the British Embassy said that it had conveyed the results of its preliminary' investigation to the Japanese Embassy, and also notified the Tatter that any information pertaining to the case that may be submitted (0 the British Embassy by Japanese authorities would be given the greatest attention.
'Meanwhile, dificultios between forcism legation and local Japanese residents continued to flare' up, obliving Mr. Muto to call at the French Embassy "here this morning to Fomonstrate ayuinst alleged cases of rowdyism by. French guards in 90 asked the British Embassy for a prompt investigation and the ay prehension of an unnamed British soldier, "who is alleged to have assaulted Sasaki in' Halamen' Street May. 26, 'The "local Japanese community is growing increasingly restless, some advocating the calling of a residents' meeting to formulate a plan to deal with the situation—Domel,
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