The árst installment of $100,000.00 worth of Liberty Bonds assigned to local postmen in a house-to-house canvass was sold out in less than three days, it was announced yesterday at the office of the national committee for the sale of the bonds.
London, Oct, 13.
Japanese appeals to encourage a true understanding of the situation in the Far East and to prevent anti-Japanese movements like boycotts, have reached the President of the Association of Chambers of Commerce from the presidents of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and the Japanese Economic Federation.
The appeals allege "malicious exaggerated propaganda" by the Chinese, assert that the fundamental policy of the Japanese military authorities is to exercise "the greatest care to prevent all unnecessary loss of civilian lives and property, especially foreign," and deny that Japanese submarines have made unwarranted attacks on Chinese shipping.
They express the conviction that there is no reason to doubt that British vested rights and interests in China will be respected.
The documents fervently request the addressees, "at the present critical point in Anglo-Japanese friendship," to use their fair judgment in guiding British public opinion in an endeavour fo maintain economic relations between the two countries.
A reply has been sent that the messages will receive the fullest consideration.—Reuter.
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