The delayed report concerning the demonstrations at Tsingtao on June 23, which was published in Saturday's issue of the "North-China Daily News" is remarkable for two features, the first being with regard to the manner in which the demonstration was organized, and the second was the very patent disapproval of naval and civilian Japanese of the whole business. Adult demonstrators it is reported were paid 30 cents for their trouble, school children five cents each, Chinese shops were ordered to send one representative each under threat of a fine, while representatives of the White Russian Anti-Communist Association were also ordered to attend, which they are reported to have done very shamefacedly. Japanese members of various firms were to be seen tearing down anti-British posters as quickly as they were pasted up on their premises, the Yokohama Specie Bank refused to permit any posters to be stuck on its walls, while even individual Japanese shopkeepers acted similarly until they were ordered to refrain from doing so. Not only that, when the Japanese Admiral returned Rear-Admiral Murray's call at the British Consulate-General, and saw the posters affixed to that building he expressed to the Consul-General and the Rear-Admiral his strong disapproval of the measures taken that day by the Japanese military and apologized for them. It is, perhaps, as well that at all times a sharp differentiation should be made between the Japanese Navy, Army and civilians. The story of Japanese naval behaviour during the whole of the "China Incident" contrasts favourably with that of the Japanese Army, while it is a notorious fact that there is a very large body of Japanese civilian opinion which disapproves of much of what is being done in China, especially vis-à-vis of third party neutrals. That point is emphasized by the story of the Tsingtao demonstration, and nothing but the keennest appreciation can be expressed of the correctness of the Japanese Admiral's actions on that occasion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.