Tientsin, June 6.
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce here held a meeting to-day at which the following resolution was passed The Changsha incident is an outcome of the failure of the Chinese authorities to control the anti-Japanese agitation. The. present state of affairs in China causes all the Japanese living in China to entertain extreme apprehensions. It is devoutly to be hoped, therefore, that at this juncture, the Imperial Government of Japan will file a strict and thoroughgoing protest with the Chinese Government regarding the responsibility of the Chinese authorities concerned and against the anti-Japanese agitation in general. In case the Chinese Government fail to control the agitation drastically, resorting to their former methods, Japanese residents China will have no alternative but to devise means for self-defence requisite to face the menace to their life and property, and the Chinese Government will be called upon to take the entire responsibility upon itself—Eastern News Agency.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.