Shanghai, July 9. 'EPERCUSSIONS may be expected in the near future, incident upon the arrest of sixteen armed Japanese gendarmes by U. S. Marines in various paris of the American defence sector on Sunday. Despite the admission of the army spokesman at the press conference yesterday that the gendarmes had penetrated the area without the requisite notification from the Japanese authorities, it is felt that "a grave insult has been inflicted on the gendarmerie and the entire Japanese army."
It is alleged that the Americans struck three or four of the men with their rifle butts, resulting in injuries to the head and body, and treated all the prisoners with contumely. An immediate protest, declared the spokesman, will be lodged with the Marine authorities, and the whole issue will depend on their attitude.
"We must conclude," he said, "that the US. Marines have. abandoned mands will be attached to the protest, {heir responsibilities, as the joint de- it was added, but the Japanese reserve: fence forces have io. protect. alien the right to make demands should well as nationals in their sectors these be necessary. The whole out-it'seemed ae though the case. had come will depend on the attitude of been settled, the spokesman stated, the Marines who will receive the but it was found later irom the ar-ote as soon as possible. ested "Japanese. that. the Marines was pointed out at the confer. Appeared to have acted from the be= cence that it was unlikely that armed inning' with the intention of arrest-Marines in plain clothes would be {ing the gendarmes, in" secordarce welcomed in' Hongkew. To th weltn notieation from the 8. M.
Epokesman replied that if proper When the Japanese were arrested, notification were given, it would be Walled, the "Marines struck. them considered. In any case, he added, Sue butte ie ween, was hardly likely. that the Marines fon the way to headquarters they were Subjected to further assault. The! would be subjected to the came treat~ ment as hod been meted out to the gendarmes were forced t0 "squat" on Japenese. the rine range, continued the spokes man, and were rented ike criminals No Resistance Offered Incident Over Arrested As they had received strict orders not {0 resist arrest under any cir Man Settled Amicably cumstances they. did not put, up a fight, Despite their blameless. be-Shanghai, July 9. haviour, as they were acting under What might have become another instructions from superior officers, international incident was amicably they were maltreated. "That con: settled by the British military austitutes a grave insult to the Japanthorities "and the City Government ce army," reiterated the spokesman. of, Greater Shanghai, As the Marines failed to notify the The incident in question arose Japanese authorities of the arrest of after a military patrol these men, the situation might have arrested a in foreign Femained as it Was, had not the clothes, walking along Keswick Tapanese breached the matter them-rosd st about 10 pin. on Thursday. selves.
Further alleged insults included the Chinese. was taken to a military brandishing a pistol. The arrested tearing up of the gendarmes' indent Great Western Rond where {ileation cards and the rough hand questioned. At the post, he Ing of their persons, "These acts of document stating that the "US.
Marines," insisted the sergeant with the police Spokesman, "were unnecessary and force of the City Government These assault" were Shanghai. The man. was committed with full knowledge that Immediately released, but told that the Japanese were gendarmes." it he wanted to carry a pistol the British defence sector, he would Arrested Before Chinese Crowd have to be in uniform. to avoid As previously admitted by the detention spokesman, the nen-delivery of a The whole incident was fully fullfieation of the entrance of these explained to the officials of the. men into the seder was the fault of City Government of Greater: Shanythe Japanese, but this single failure hai' and was amicably closed. 'The wes made the grounds for the arrest arrested Chinese sergeant, when of the gendarme: in the- presence questioned by his superiors, an-of a Chinese crowd, and this cannot swered that" he war' very" well be regarded as a friendly act towards treated by the British. the Japanese.
Rumours that soldiers "We believe that the case will] were forbidden to appear in uniform acquire a serious nature in the future," the French Concession were stated the spokesman, "and the Japan-Senied by a British military" official, ese military will file' strong protest she stated that no sich order had with the U.S. authorities." No de-! been given, Local Society Says Britons Must Go Shanghai, July 9, Threatening to ure force to drive out the British from China, a new organization called the "British Ex: termination Corps of the Republic of China" has been formed and although the address of the new group could of be ascertained yesterday, itis believed likely that it is located in cecuipied areas and. maintains a branch office in' Shanghai,-—The Shanghai branch ofice has sent out printed anti-British warnings bear= Ing its seal, One of the warnings has been mailed to the offices of this journal, printed on a sheet of ordinary Chinese letter paper, like that used by many propagandists in occupied aleas singe the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hoxiliies. It iv not known just how big the new corps is and whether or not it is military ju nature, but the term "corps in the Chinese Jonguage usually suggests. some military. affiliation, "Mask Torn Away'
"You British troops! The mask
away and your brutality and menace of your imperialism has een "Yom are now known to the world," the
explain. that those who save others searing begins. It then goes on will be saved and that those who Ill Wil meet with the same fate, The "punitive" campaign said to be led by Germany and Ttaly is sald"to be the "will of Heaven,"
Therefore, speaking as masters of the land, we! uphold moral principles, and are polite before we do anything rough. We hereby warn you that you mast withdraw from this country without the least possible delay, for Asia" belongs to the Asiatic peoples. Lack of attention and érastination will amount to. friendly act, which in turn will cause {0 use force Immediately to settle the matter.
The hope is expressed British will pay attention that the 10 the warning and "obey," lest they she id bbe too late to repent when they "dic without burying ground."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.