According to reports from Peiping the campaign against the British missionaries is inspired by the Japa ese authorities, many of the local (Chinese having' been foreed to adopt an anti-British attitude in face of Japanese threats, The " so-called Jerowds of demonstrators that rushed the mission compounds, the report adds consisted mainly of Chinese policemen dressed as coolies with fow extra hired rifferaft from the streets, 'Those mobs broke into the premises ostensibly for the purpose of searching for compromising cor= respondence with guerillas and for farms, neither of which, the report continues, were found. At the same ime the' mobs took the opportunity dea little looting on their own behalf, many small articles being removed as they ransacked "ce various rooms. After the looters hind. completed their work police guards were placed around premises by the Japanese authorities, Included in the campaign of intimidation is the despatch of threatening Jetters. tothe mission tries and. the pasting up of antic British slogans, "Most of the mis~ sionaries have one o Peitaiho, where usually they spend their summer vacations, Tt is not known whether "they will be able return to" Linfen and Hungtung until negotiations have been opened with the Japanese "authorities. a8 soon full reports of happenings there have been received, Pearl River May Be Closed Again Canton, July 23, It is ofMeially learned here today that there is a. strong possibility of the Pearl River being closed for a fortnight, beginning "on July 27, owing to "military operations."
The closure of the River will apply to foreign gunboats as well as mer chant vessels Reuter,
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