Nanking, June 18.
A wholesale revision of. Britain's "egoistical policies" whereby she allegedly assists the regime of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and encourages the Chinese Communists, was urged upon the London authorities by Mr. Lien Vu, Foreign Minister of the Reformed Government here, in a public statement made here today. Released simultaneously with Mr. Lien's state~ ment was the text of a message of encouragement dispatched by Mr. Chen Chun, Minister of the Interior, to Mayor Pan Vu-kwei of Tientsin, "We hope that your city," Mr. Chen said, "will maintain its determined and efficient attitude to destroy the underhanded designs of the British by completely cutting off communications with the British Concession."
Mr. Lien in his statement blamed: ihe British authorities in the nor-them city for the present impasse by "stubbornly adhering to their views, lacking good faith, and placing a false construction upon the steps taken by the authorities of our friendly Power, Japan."
"It is indeed to be regretted that the London Government has permitted the present state of affairs to arise by failing throughout to take due cognizance of the current situation in East Asi nected with the question may experience as a result of the Japanese measures against the British and French Concessions.
Regarding the so-called independent advisory committee mentioned in the British statement, Japanese official circles recalled that a staff member of the British Consulate-General in Tientsin on June 13 proposed to the Japanese Consul-General that a joint investigation be made by one Japanese, one Briton and one neutral to decide whether evidence against the four accused men was sufficient. No proposal of this kind was made to Tokyo by the British Government before June 14, it was recalled,
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