Five Arrested During Week-end at Singapore, Hongkong and Rangoon London, Aug. 5. ME Japanese nationals were under detesition in' Bri in, the Straits Settlements, Hongkong and Burma last night on charges of violating various defence regulations.
Meanwhile, the number of Britons under detention in Japan on charges of espionage was reduced to seven and possibly five.
The Japanese Embassy ann \ced_ last night that five more Japanese nationals had been detained by British authorities over the week end. One Japanese was held i Singapore; one in Hongkong and three others were taken into custody in Rangoon. The Japanese Embassy also revealed that three Japanese nationals were defi ied by the British three weeks ago—before the roundup of Britons in Japan began. anese quarters reported last night that the Japanese "Ambassador to London, Mr, Mamora Shigemitsu, probably would call-on the. British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, again today to ask for more details regarding the detention of Japanese national formal request for the release of the arrested Japanese may be made it this {ime unless there Is sound evidence" against the Japanese volved), it was said,
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