Reports received in Shanghai, he said, had proved. that all agitation was' carried out by the Japanese themselves with the aid of Koreans and Manchukuoans and a few local Chinese rifsraff. There. had been made to find Out what was happening there. A hospital was situated there and It was Imperative that they should receive some news from this centre.
Another group of missionaries, evicted by the Japanese forces, he said, wore stranded at Shihchiachwang, owing to floods but he could not state whether they belonged to the China Inland Mission. oF not." Referring again to the fact that the Chinese people were not in sympathy with the anti-British drive, the oMeiat plained that at Hungtung, following cones of agitation, a delegation from the local Chinese community had apologised and had refuted the Japanese story that there was a Boneral fooling of ill-will Iocally towards Britons.
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