In dealing with the anti-Japan-Japanese author. ely relied upon Government to take ps of their own ae cor was only after the situation had grown worse that the japanese Government—requested the Chinese Government to tak SUTOS. government instructed their sular representatives adv the Japanese residents under jurisdictions to reful in their behaviour nese residents in the vinces were also warned inst any action likely to give or provoke the antiese movement. Owing to these—precautiona measures token by the J i the Japa provines rei The movement has hoon carried out all er the Eh Shasi, Foochow, and_ other the anti-Japanese agitation was instigated by the so-called
and other an Society in Support of Diploma ious measures of brought to bear on and their trade. resorted to by the Anti Japanese agitators are too varied and numerous to fe_mentioned. Towards the end of May damage was done not only to me: chants who h business dealings with the nese, but also to goods in the possessivcn of Japan ese merchants. Chinese employed by Japanese ships wede per-secured: passengers on Japanese ships, were obstructed on landing and embarking; and the Chinese local authorities showed no sincerity in taking steps to cope with the situation, despite the repeated protests of the Japanese ion. the recent Chang a incident the Japanese ion.
in its memoranda June 2 and 4, tried to make the whole situation clear to the Chinese Government, and also sent ils representative to the Waichiaopu asking for adequate measures to be taken for the suppression of the agitation and the protection of Jpanese life and property. (There then follows a long recapitulation of the Changsha affair, showing the unprovoked nature of the attack on the Japanese and how they fired in absolute necessity. These facts have already. published.~-
THE REAL RESPONSIBILITY, The cause of the Changsha incident is to be attributed to the equate measures on the part ithe Chinese authorities to sups the agitation, allowing the apanese boycotters to grow so presumptuous that they inter, fered with the legitimate trade lit of the Japanese.
The Chinese people in Chang-sh gated by the anti-Japantions, put up placards eerie in the city for pro-communicate with rendered
Japanese ships and steamers: per-secured Chinese in the employ of ie japanese: cul off the supply tuffs to the Japane: made it impossible for Japanese ships and steamers to get supplies of coal, water and provisions.
The anti japanese movement is stirred up at Changsha and other places in China by the so-called Society in Support of Diplomacy, the Students' Union, groups of merchants who shrink from Jogitimate economic com petition. and groups of rogues paid by political agitators. The station is not ority having bad results upon the trade between China and Japan, but also affecting the friendly relations of the two neighbouring countries. The state of affairs is now viewed with grave concern by the Japan-Government.
The Chinese authorities, however, tock no notice of this state of affairs, allowing the anti-Japanese agitators to have their own way, and the situation continued to grow all the more serious until the Japanese Consul empalled to remove all the Changsha, '110, in number, on panese women and children at
board the N.K.K.S. Yuankiang Maru carly in the morning of dune 6 and then all the Japanese men to the Consular compound in order to protect themselves.
The Japanese Government has instructed Mr. Yoshida, the Charge d'Affaires in Peking, to make strong representations 1 the Chinese Government on the subject.—Reuter.
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