The Archive · 1937

British Troops Accused

Offices of a Fishing Firm — Wrecked

Tokyo, May 28, Press reports received here tonday from Shanhaikwan accused twenty soldiers of the British detachment stationed in the border town of fecking the offices of the Chao Fishing "Company, The concern, owned by Mr, Ets Uyeda, is located on the Manchuria the reports al-centered the firm's offices 9 o'clock last night, broke window panes and shattered the doors. 'They are said to have Jater let the fishing boats of the concern drift away, No' Japanese employees of the company were injured.

The reports described the attack fas an act of vengeance for the forcible ejection of some British soldiers the previous evening dormitory occupied by the firm manchurian employees, Incensed by jokes male by the British soldiers at. the expense of the occupants of the dormitory, and slapping of one of their number, he Manchurians, according 10" the report, drove the soldiers out of the building.

The reports could not be confirmed

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