Preparations to Continue for 1940 Games Tokyo, Feb, 2.
Japan will go ahead with her preparations for the 1940 Olympiad despite the China incident, Japanese delegates to the meeting of the International Olympic Committee, to be held in Cairo next month, declared to-day on their departure for Prof Jigoro Kano, chief Japanese representative, issued a statement emphasizing that "the whole Japanese nation is firmly determined to hold the Olympics in Tokyo."
The reports that Japan would abandon her preparations for the Games were described by Prof. Kano as "wild talk by irresponsible persons."
Mr, Werner Klingeberg, German technical adviser to the Olympic Organizing Committee, who is accompanying the delegation, said the preparations now going on in Tokyo are "marked by the same enthusiasm which greeted the award of tne Games to Japan by the International Olympic Committee last yeari—Domei.
Hongkong, Feb. 2.
As a sequel to the trouble aboard the British steamer Silkworth, which was compelled to return to Hongkong on January 29, Commander G. F. Hole, the Harbour Master, to-day sentenced H. Wakisita, the Japanese quartermaster, to twelve weeks' hard labour for assaulting the third officer, A. Sanuki, also a Japanese.
The evidence revealed that, after the original dispute between Wakisita and Sanuki, twelve members of the Japanese crew proceeded to the bridge, and that the captain had to produce his revolver owing to their threatening attitude.
In sentencing Wakisita, the Har-hour Master remarked: "It looks very much like a mutiny, and the accused seems to have carried that into actual fact."
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