The Archive · 1936

Consul Bela

Nanking, Aug. 27.

Civil organizations at' Chungking, after a mass meeting to-day, refused allow the agents of the CN.A.C, the Eurasian Aviation Corporation, or automobile companies to provide transportation for the new Japanese Consul, who intended to proceed to Chengiu to investigate at first-hand the circumstances surrounding the Incident there. According to the Japanese Embassy hire, however, Japanese consular police' succeeded reaching Chengtu yesterday, to Investigate the assault, The latest information available here indicates that four Chinese participants in the disturbances were either killed or seriously wounded. Two attacks, it is understood, were direct-fed against Chengtu firms suspected of handling smuggled goods, and one against the hotel in which the party of Japanese resided.

According to information received by the Waichiaopu, patriotic societies in, Szechuan were the latest group to join the movement against smuggling and the opening of the Japanese Consulate at. Chengtu.

The main force of the mob which Hloted at Chengtu comprised students of the West China Union University, reinforced by some from Szechuan

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