The Archive · 1937

BRITISH CAMEO FOR BOYCOTT

Liberal Leader Denounces

Aerial "Frightfulness"

London, Oct. 2.

Evidences of an agitation for a boycott against Japan continue to accumulate th Great Britain, Hundreds of people were unable to gain admission at the meeting of the "Great China Campaign" at Whitefields Tabernacle in London last night, The meeting wes visibly impressed by the frank statement of Gen. Yang. Hu-cheng, one of the leaders of the Sianfu revolt, that he was one of General Chiang Kai-shek's kidnappers in December lest year. The star was made to show China's uni inst Japan to-day, Urging that an economic boycott of Japan by the British Empire, Holland, France and the United States would compel Japan to stop her aggression in China and comme to terms, Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader, declared in a speech at Wick, Caithréss, that none could &fford, least of all the inhabitants of crowded cities in Europe, to be indifferent to the fate of Shanghai, Canton and Nanking.

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