Despite intense propaganda efforts, the form of huge advertisements in the "Japanese-controlled vernacular Press and a profusion of posters in Chinese and "English: "Down, with England," "Oppose the English" and "Exclude the' English" on all the telegraph poles and trees in the city, the anti-British movement in Peiping still refuses to catch fire. Indeed, it is said in Chinese circles that a secret meeting of the heads of all the guilds was held here recently and sent Mr. Long Chia-chi, the chief promoter of the anti-British movement, a private warning that, if he did riot damp down on the movement, might find things made very hot for him personally. Tt was pointed out that owing to the contusion in the currency and the import restrictions. trade was quite bad enough already without being further upset by: arti-Aeial political troubles. as full as ever this year, many people "having actually come there from Tsingtao, There has been 40 far no trouble of any kind, the only anti-British movement consisting of a parade of about half a dozen hired seallywags who go round. the lace at the siesta hour with banners. and beating gongs, to the mild amusement of the foreign residents, report that all the trains coming Travellers returning from Peto from Manchoukuo are overcrowded with wealthy Chinese refugees, ways the first rats to leave the' sink: ing ship. It appears that there is quite a panic in Manchoukuo these days, for fear of possible air-raids by Soviet fliers; hence this "exodus of wealthy Chinese to what they' hope will prove a more salubrious area, It is also reported that Emperor Kang. Teh: has moved to Dairen.
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