Hongkong, July 18.
An inguiry into the death of Joseph Howard Campbell, an American, who was found dead under curious circumstances in Kowloon in the early hours of June 11, was opened this afternoon atthe Kowloon Peiping, July 19.
The Japanese-sponsored anti-British Jdrive In Peiping is now beginning m earnest, Threats are taking the place of persuasions of the apathetic Chinese population.
The Hsin Min "Hui, a Japanese-organized political party, is striving to. work up anti-British feeling and appeared in all Chinese newspapers [signed by Mr. Long Chia-chi, pro-JJapanese local oficial, declaring that fall employees of Britons must leave their employment immediately and Jandlords must cancel the house eases of Britons.
'Those who continue to ignore this warning, the advertisements state, Will be' regarded as "disturbers of the New Order in Asia," and. they and their families will be punished. This threat is already having its effect on the more nervous Chinese controlled press continues to attack [British mission schools, charging them with "cultural aggression." Students fare told to transfer to Chinese or Japanese schools,
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