The Archive · 1936

Strong Protest to be Made by Japanese Embassy

DIPLOMAT'S BAGGAGE SEARCHED

Strong representations will made soon by the Japanese Embassy against the unlawful search of the baggage of Mr. Motoki Matsumura 'Third Secretary of the Embassy. by a Customs' official at the North Station on August 7, the local Nipponese Papers reported.

'Mr, Matsumura, arrived here from Nanking when he was approached by a Customs' examiner, who asked him to open his baggage for inspeetion, The Japanese official declined, showing the examiner his name-card bearing his name and oficial starding.

The examiner, the papers said, paid no attention to the card, ignored 'Mr, Matsumuro's warning and proceeded to examine the baggage, find-ug-no contraband, Japanese autho ies here regard the incident, cording to the papers, as an insult to, Mr, Matsumura and' a violation of International Law.

Two Hankow residents, both of them well known in Shanghai, were eye-witnesses of the alleged attempt on the life of King Edward VIII on July 16, the picture published in the "Dally Mirror" of July 17 shows. They are Mr. A. Spedding and Cap-ruin EC. Fry, and they are clearly visible, standing behind the crowd Just opposite the spot where Me-'Mahon was arrested.

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