District Citizens' Federaton held a meeting in the Greater Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Commerce on July 16, and, apart from passing a series "of regulations in connection with the dispute over the house rent reduetion and remission question, decided to voice their, strong denunciation of the British Chamber of Commerce for having broached the proposal to call a Round-Table Conference to settle the Shanghai situation. It Was also decided to oppose the proposed conference, Other resolutions passed included the followin That the draft agreement for the restoration of the extra-Settlement roads, which violates China's sovereign rights, be opposed; That a telegram be despatched to the Central Government demanding that the scheme to establish an opium monopoly should definitely be: rejected; That the severance of economic relations with Japan be maintained to the end; and That the National Government be requested to send troops to, Mat
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