"A new Chi and with it a new unity and spirit, Woodroffe in a speech ing of the Pekin Ltd, of which he is chairman and managing. director.
Prior to the war, he said, the economic resources of the southewest provinces of were unknown, but nense mineral and resources of the area being carefully studied by the Affairs, and factories removed from the war zone were being re-erected in these prov= was a possibility, General Wood raffe added, that this new China of the south-western provinces, with an na St Moves Stir Interest London, July The strike movement China which workers of Britis taken very seriously Uy ecuiser Cornwall the vessel Falmouth has been dispatched to Tsingtzo where Chinese en of the British Consulate hav given lip their jobs—Trans-Ocean, British-Owned Local Mills Encircled London, July 17.
In the Hose of Commons. today Mr. Marry Day. Labour member for Central Southwark, asked the Pritn Minister. -Mr., Neville Chamberlain, for particulars of the protest lodged by the British "authorities with th Japanese authorities for' enciretin ithreo Brit ied. (actones on th north bank of the Soochow Creek at Shanghai with wire. barricades, In reply Mr. R. A, Butler, Under-Secretary of Sint for ' Foreign Affairs, said that, according to the information received. by Lord Hall= fax, the Foreign Secretary, two British' factories were affected, namely, the Zoong Sing Cotton Mili andthe China pre mill Acedss to these had for some time been by boat across the Soochow Creek to the mill jetty. This had now been wired off by the Japanese authorities in such a way that could no longer be used, and similar measures had been adepted ut the premises of the China Car and Foun:
British Constl-General at Buller "added, had and oral representa tions to the Japanese Consul-General, and. had pressed for permission to rebuild. the wooden bridge which formerly existed and" which, understood, would not interfere' with tremie on the creek,
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