Hongkong, Feb. 1.
With reference to the Birmingham Ispeceh of Sir Austen Chamberlain, Horgkong merchants _interviewed Reuter consider that the Canton Government. assurances they are implemented by concrete and friendly acts, are insufficient. They point out that the assurance regarding the removal of the Canton boy-Jeott of Hongkong in October last ing to well-informed Japanese in Mukden, the British and Japanese Embassies took the matter up with the Waichiaopy, albeit informally. The Foreign Office then referred the question to Marshal Chang Tso-Tin who at once gave out a quasi apology Like the Crown Prince"
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