The Archive · 1940

Other Arrested Britons

Tokyo, July 29, 'There is still no news about the other Britons who were arrested by the Japanese in the great nation-wide swoop on Saturday, in which Mr. Cox, was taken'

Tt was learned during the course the day however, that one extra British subject had been arrested, thus bringing the total number ar-Fested to. 11, including the " late "Jimmy" Cox.' The eleventh man be arrested was Mr. IT, Woolley, of the Asiatic Petroleum Ca. He fas taken for police questioning at Kobe,

Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Min-Ambassador saw Mr.

'Sit Robert the British'

Ister, concerning the case of the of ested Britons. this morning, it learned. Mr. Matsuoka is reported to have promised that he would try to expedite the police questioning of all the arrested Britons twas also rumoured that the ten British businessmen under arrest were lear, whether the tate "Jimmy" Cox had been held on the strength of similar allegations whether his was a particular case. Router.

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