The Archive · 1939

Tokyo Resented

Chungking, July 25.

While the Chinese authorities are maintaining a cautious attitude towards the reported agreement reached in the course of the Anglo-Japanese conversations in Tokyo, the younger extremists are showing signs of impatience. One typical comment of this group is:—"It Japan can wage an anti-British campaign, why cannot China?"

Another is:—"If Britain refuses help to China, and compromises with Japan, hoping to preserve her interests by sacrificing China, we must warn Britain that if China is destroyed, there will not be much left for Britain to présetve."

These extremists complain that China has been "betrayed," alleging that when the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Kerr, and the French Atnbassador, M. Henri Cosme, last visited Chungking, the Chinese Government, to show China's sincere desire to ce-operate with Britain and France, ordered the cessation of all anti-Japanese activities in the foreign "n "look what has Happened. Anti-Chinese activities have increased in the foreign cohcessions."

They intimate that, if the worst comes to the worst, "the Chinese can embark on a wholesale withdrawal from the foreign concessions, at the same time. launching counter-measures which will make the owners sit up ahd reconsider their attitude."—Reuter.

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