Shanghai, July Japanese in Yunnaniu go in fear of their lives. They are unable to obtain servants. Shops are intimidate into refusing to sell them anything, And there is an_ organized movement to prevent their renting houses to live in.
This report was contained in a despatch from the lately" returned Japanese vice-consul to the capital tity of Yunnan province, Mr. Toneki, Which may be the subject of re presentations by the Japanese Lega-Yien. to the Chinese authorities in Nanking, it was learned yesterday. According to Mr. Toneki's despatch, the authorities in Yunnanfu have made no attempt to protect Japanese citizens or to put down the illegal activities of antivJapanese ass0- lations there.
Mr. Toneki, accompanied by four Japanese families recently returned to Yunnanfu to reopen the Japanese consulate there. Those with him consisted of the families of two merchants who formerly did busi-hess in the city, a doctor, and a barber, Immediately upon their arrival the Anti-Japanese Liquidation Committee which had formerly been active in anti-Japanese agitation took measures to revive and intensity the boycott against them.
The Japanese found that landlords were too frightened to. let them houses to live in. Servants had been threatened with death if they took employment with Japanese. Merchants who sold them goods were to be branded as traitors to their country. Even the Chinese assistant the Japanese consulate was forced to leave his post.
'The attention of the local authorities was called to this systematic persecution but to no. avail, ace cording to Mr. Toneki's "despatch. Nothing was done about it, either through the local authorities' inability to put a stop to it or their unwillingness. to interfere,
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