The Archive · 1937

4H, MI. Embassy Uninformed

Peiping, May 29.

British Embassy officials here today said they had not received any official information concerning the alleged attack by British soldier the premises of the Great Wall would have received an official te-port" a spokesman said. Pleading complete ignorance, he declined comment further "on the case—Domei, Tokyo, May 29, An apology for an attack by 20 British soldiers on a Japanese fishing concern in Shanhaikwan on Thursday was yesterday tendered {0 the Manchoukito authorities by the come mander of the British detachment in the border town, the Gaimusho was officially advised last night, The apology, the brief" dispatch added, was tendered following the: filing of a protest by Manchoukuo oflcials in Shanhaikwan—Domel, Omicer To Investigate Peiping, May 29, An officer of the British military headquarters in Tientsin left for ing to investigate an involving some 20 wen of the Lancashire Fusiliers and fishermen in Manchoukuo territory. negligible The at amt, is "almost

amicably settled. "Langu: ties" are believed by the Manchoukuo authorities in Shanhaikuan to have been responsible for the inck details of which are not 1 available here,—Reuter.

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