Last night, a large meeting of Japanese residents, under the leadership of a Japanese officer in the uniform of a major, took place on the glacis outside the Legation quarter.
Singing and shouting were heard far into the night, the reason for which was seen in the morning when a small army of Chinese coolies were engaged in clearing up countless beer bottles and beer cases which apparently provided the stimulus at this meeting, which passed a resolution stating: "Britain must be driven out of Asia."
It is reported that 21 Britons left Kaifeng on July 7 for the coast as the result of the Chinese authorities Nothing is known here to substantiate the Chinese report, circulated in Shanghai, that Mr. T. V, Soong, chairman of the board of directors of the Bank of China and formerly Minister of Finance, is shortly to be given an important post in the Chinese Government.
Mr. Soong's secretary, approached by Reuter, refused to comment on the subject.
Well-informed quarters here consider the report a case of the wish being father to the thought. If Mr. Soong were to rejoin the Government, the Chinese dollar, they assert, "undoubtedly be strength-there ordering them to leave—Route:
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