'The British authorities on Aprit 11 asked the ce-operation of the Japan-Jose gendarmerie in investigating' the murder. "It had been agreed that if the criminals. or their' accomplices Were arrested they wotild be handed Jover to the Japanese. Authorities in Tokyo were notified to this effect Jon April 14 by Mr. Tashiro.
With the ce-operation of the Japanese gendarmerie British auth-ferities ordered three searches during the period from April 15 to 22. At the time of the third search the' Japanese gendarmes arrested several Chinese suspects and after negotiations obtained custody of them. Before. the return of the suspects to the British authorities in the morn-Ing of April 20, a date agreed upon, the Japanese authorities made" investigation at the scene of the crime. 'There in the presence of British representatives the suspects Fe-enacted their part. in the crime fas. they had confessed it, and. the Britons recognized that the men were implicated in' the murder, Japanese authorities claimed.
'The British authorities promised that they would hand them' over to the Chinese authorities on receipt of papers from. the Japanese gendai merle. Despite this promise the Brit-sh authorities rejected a demand of the Chinese authorities for custody fof the men on the grounds that the criminely had. reteneted their con fessions. After Irultless negotiations with the British authorities since that time Mr. Tashiro on May 31 requested that the British authorities ive notice by noon on June 7 when {hr they would hand over the eri June 6 Sir Robert Craigie, ish Ambassador to Japan, called Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign. Mine id informed him that the Rrritish authorities would hand over to the Chinese authorities those eri=
The ease was a prima facie one involving. the four criminals whose delivery became a matter for direct erotintions between Japan and Bue tin, Japanese. oficial quarters said. The British attempt to. invite. thied Power tervention in this kind of A question wax entirely unacceptable wane matter of principle oficial circles aid, "They the British proposal ing with the wetuat eireunstanees. pan wants in, the present affairs, they said, was "radical prevement™ of the policy of the Bi authorities. It wax searcely necessary to say, oficial quarters de~ Claved. that the. Reitish potiew had hating ta do with the "policies of fiber creat Pawers with interests in the Far Hast"
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