Preparations have been made for anti-British mass meetings on July 7, which marks the second anniversary of the present Sino-Japanese conflict. These preparations are not confined to Tientsin, as a similar programme has been planned for other important centres in North China.
One of the ideas of the sponsors of the new anti-British drive is to create agitation for the retrocession of the foreign concessions in China.
Violent anti-British diatribes are appearing in the Japanese controlled press here, and broadcasts in the same vein are being made.
The local British community is awaiting the prospective Anglo-Japanese negotiations at Tokyo with keen anxiety mingled with no little apprehension. The general feeling is that to compromise under a Japanese show of strength would result in damaging the prestige and future in the Far East of every Western nation.
—Reuter.
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