The Archive · 1937

New Note to Tokyo

new protest note is to be handed to the Japanese Government by the British' Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, concerning yesterday's series Of incidents in Shanghai, it is learnt here "in government circles. The Incidents concerned the invasion of the International Settlement by Japanese troops and the assaults on British members of the Municipal Police, It is declared that a high degree of indignation prevails in these gov-ferment circles, but that the report hom the British Counsellor of the Embassy in Shanghai, will be awaited before the text of the note is drawn up.

Newspapers express the opinion that the note of protest will be sent "the sentry returned to the post to report the matter. A. nonscommis-Sioned officer then rushed to the spai find sought fo bring the woman back: altercation. into the Nantao al This Ted to an

say the woman should have! walked fifty yards from one hydrant to anolter is a mystery, probably at-{ributable to Chinese psychology," the spokesman remarked.

The sentry had motioned her back because he suspected the woman of communieatbg vith Chinese on the French Concession side of the rosd-

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