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Show BRITISH VESSELS UILL LO FOOD AT BLOCKADED PORT AS TEtlSIOIl EASES It FAR EAST English Sailors, Nippon , Sentries Clash at Hankow By JOHN ft. MORRIS ' TIENTSIN, China, June 24 (UP) The Japanese have lift- , ed their embargo against Brit- . ish shipping at .blockaded Swdtow, British sources laid -today, and foreigners in the city eagerly awaited the arrival ar-rival of ships with food, pas- ; sengers and mail. '' A Japanese Dome I news agcy dispatch from Tokyo Indicated that although mail could be landed, food and other materials may be held up "for ths Urns being." . The Japanese decision, tt was understood, un-derstood, applied also ta ships of ' ths United States and other nations. na-tions. Ths ruling was effective today. to-day. Ths attitude ef ths British toward Japanese repressive measures was generally stiffening. . . ) PteSeettoa Asked Consular authorities at Chefoo, 1 723 miles across the Gulf of Chin 11 -from here, asksd the British ad- ' mlralty to send a warship to protect pro-tect British subjects because of "the ' threatening political situation." In London ths admiralty said no Brit- ; ish warships were In Chefoo yet. Minor clashes continued to occur. Two British sailors wars Involved In a fight with Japanese sentries at -Hankow. Another Briton reported ' having been stripped to his under- ' clothes and humiliated la Tientsin. The appeal from the authorities ' at Chefoo was caused by anti-Brit- ; ish parades and demonstrations, which occurred all ever China yes-terdsy. yes-terdsy. Jspaness reports from Hankow, up ths Yangtze river from Bhang- ' hal, said today that two British navy bluejackets had fought with . Japanese sentries. Britons, Japanese) Clash A Domal (Japanese) news agency , dispatch said that the sailors had . been drinking and that they beat rickshaw coo lies whom Japanese " sentries halted because it was aftar . a midnight curfew imposed by the . Japanese. Ths dispatch said that ths sailors "wrestled" with a Japanssa sentry who, with ths aid of four others, ' arrested them. The sailors wsrs re- ' leased aftar a British gunboat com- ' mender apologized and acknowledged acknowl-edged that ths sailors wars at fault, ' ths dispatch related. - It was announced officially at (CeeMnwM on Pace Tvel ' tCoiuma SU Leads British Troops In China I .is i- ' - , . : ) I -, vJfreasr,, . ? f j V - - ' ' O i . v V - - - ,f tS i . y ,. . ; ..J Major General Frank Keith Simmons, sbove, b tha new commander com-mander of British defense troops in China. General Simmons, who assumed his new duties early this month with headquarters in Shanghai, finds himself confronted by a serious problem, a Japanese Jap-anese blockade ef International areas. Japanese Raise Embargo; Swatow Waits Food Ships Continue Wnm Pas One) Hong Kong that tha Japanes had agreed to th right of British shipping ship-ping to enter blockaded Swatow, effective ef-fective at noon today, and that mall, food and passengers would be landed land-ed at Swatow today. It was assumed that tha Japanese concession applisd squally to United States and other shipping. Ths Japanese had ordered foreigners, for-eigners, foreign merchantmen and foreign warships to gst out of Swatow Swa-tow by 1 p. m. Thursday. American and British naval authorities at once rejected the demand. The Japanese than explained that their demand was not an ultimatum, as It had been regarded, but Just a friendly request to foreigners to get out because they might be endangered endan-gered In a war sons. Two signalmen were landed from ths United States destroyer Pills-bury Pills-bury and two from the British de stroyer Thanet at Swatow yestsr-day yestsr-day to watch American and British property and maintain signal communication com-munication with the ships. Chinese dispatches indicated that the Japanes were meeting some difficulty at Swatow. Th Japaness occupied the city Wednesday in a drive to cut off an important inlet for Chinas war materials. It was reported In Chinese dispatches dis-patches today, however, that Chinese Chi-nese troops had recaptured Ampow, seven mils northeast of Swatow on ths Chaoau railroad, aftsr a 13-hour fight. Reinforcements reached the Chiness, It was explained, and succeeded suc-ceeded in halting the Japanese advance ad-vance toward tha railroad center of Chaoau. British authorities her tightened their waterfront patrols la the blockaded British concession, and wsra reported to have prepared a decree banning demonstrations and distribution of political pamphlets. |