Propaganda "Evasive"
Tientsin, June 29.
Describing it as "evasive", Tapanese consular authorities here today indicated that the British reply to a Japanese protest on anti-Japanese propaganda would be rejected.
The British note, sent on Tuesday by Mr. E. G. Jamieson, Consul-General, took the form of a counterprotest and was therefore "unsatisfactory", Japanese circles declared.
Apart from dealing with the question of the alleged distortion of facts by British news sources, the British official in his note raised the issue of the detention of Mr. George Smith, a British subject, by the Chinese police; the question of the growing lack of provisions in the British concession, including ice, milk, and vegetables: and promised to investigate Japanese charges that British members of the Concession police had attacked a Chinese constable and a Japanese subject of Korean extraction following a brawl in which two Britons were alleged to have beaten up a Chinese shop-keeper.—Domei.
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