Tientsin, June 12.
British authorities today turned their concession here into an armed camp as threats of a Japanese blockade against the area' became hourly more evident. Mobile patrols In trucks sped about the streets of the Concession, while soldiers and police stood at the area boundaries Searching all passersby.
Proclamations, forbidding the crea tion of political organizations and the holding of political meetings, printed the "Concession authorities last October, suddenly made their appearance in the British area this morning.
Representatives of ight leading Japanese firms. were summoned. {or conference at 9 am. by their authorities.
The business men, includ. ing representatives of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, the Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha and the Toyo Menkwa Kaisa, were understood {o have been asked to extend full "ea operation to the Japanese community and officials in" proposed "measures against the British concession, Domei
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