"However, to allege that the strike at the Lun Chang Cotton Mill has been brought about by Japanese intigation is a brazen distortion of the truth, because there can be no labour dispute without some grievance or dissatisfaction on the part of the workers. This ought to be well known to Britons in the light of their long labour movement history.
"The strike at the Lun Chang Cotton Mill is the result of the protest and revolt of the Chinese workers against their exploitation by British capitalists. And sq long as the strike situation remains as it is Japan does not want to intervene in it, because Japan, though she is taking upon herself the task of maintaining peace and order in occupied areas and protecting the rights and interests of third Powers, cannot become the cats-paw of British capitalists in Lreaking the strike, "Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, on Ffiday filled a protest with Sir Herbert Philips, British Consul-General here, in connection with the R. M. Tinkler case, and the protest was not limited only to a demand for a sincere con-loration of the matter by the British authorities, but represented a demand for cessation of the attitude of ill-will against Japan on the part of Britain
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