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...Japan's Foreign Office handed British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie a flat note demanding that Britain hand over the 21 Germans taken three weeks ago from the Japanese liner Asama Mam. Britain sat tight on her rights. In Tientsin, U. S. citizens as well as Britons suffered from renewed tightening of the British Concession blockade, Japanese military planes roared angrily back & forth 500 feet above the Concession's buildings...
...facts afterwards. Last week Japan chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled a hot lava of diplomatic hate on Great Britain over a comparatively microscopic incident - the stopping of the liner Asama Maru by a British cruiser while 21 German reservists were taken off (TIME...
...Japanese Foreign Office, in stiffer language than the U. S. State Department used to protest the sinking of the U. S. S. Panay by Japanese bombers, notified British Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie that the Asama incident was "a serious unfriendly act," and demanded "a full and valid explanation promptly...
That was beside the point, snapped the Foreign Office. Britain had deliberately insulted Japan by halting a vessel "almost at the base of Mount Fuji" - i. e., 35 miles off shore. The Asama's unfortunate Cap tain Yoshisada Vatanabe was relieved of his job for "misconduct" - i. e., stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked...
...widely they patrol the Seven Seas the British demonstrated last week when one of their cruisers (her name painted out) slid up to the Japanese liner Asama Maru, homeward bound from San Francisco, just as she raised land off Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed...