A Japanese Embassy spokesman told newspapermen at the Japanese press conference yesterday that he had no information concerning a report that judicial police of the Western District Branch of the Nantao District Court had arrested managers and assistants of pawnshops in that area on Mond Enquiries would be made, he sai There had been talk of the establishment of a new court in that area. the spokesman said, but, as far as the new policing agreement was concerned, he was not in a position to discuss any more than had been published. He added that he could not state whether or not the action of the judicial police had been legal in view of the recent modus vivendi signed in connection with the policing of the western district.
He also could not answer a question as to whether or not Chinese, arrested in the future inside the railway tracks in that area, would be taken to the Western District Branch of the Nantao Court or to the First Special District Court in Shanghai. Questions like that, he said, were not yet settled.
A spokesman added ihat'if the planes dropped bombs or opened fire without warning, they were acting contrary to international law.
Dutch commentators point out that in not a single ease has any warning from planes been mentioned by witnesses or survivors. Moreover, unless the aircraft concerned were seaplanes, commentators say, it is manifestly impossible for them te search Dutch ships for contraband, as they are legally bound to de before trying to sink them.—Reuter.
10 seriously.
The twain consisted of two freight ears, three passenger coaches, one of which was unoccupied, and an engine.
An avalanche on Monday night that destroyed a Railway bridge in Yamagate prefecture, in northern Japan, caused the accident.
A search for the missing persons was continued today but rescue work was hampered by 10 feet of snow. Domei.
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