Committee here, which yesterday seized the Soviet Consulate, has announced its intention of not surrendering the building until after the establishment of "Jawful authority" in Russia. The building is situated in the former Russian Concession, and has been abandoned since the autumn of 1937—Reuter. about it, but on the following day was a good deal more communicative.
then admitted that the main facts in the report, which, he said, had only been' made public ow to an oversight. were "correct, essentials; but he refused to confirm of deny that the foreigner arrest Wwos the British Military Attache. Nettled perhaps by the bombardment of questions of the foreign pressmen, he Feplied rather sharply that, after all, the Japanese army Nad a perfect Fight to hold, for examination, a foreigner who had passed through the enemy's lines in order to extract from him any information he might have his possession.
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