The Archive · 1939

Peiping Watching Coal Prices for Winter

Peiping, Oct. 2.

The authorities concerned are giv ing full consideration to the coal supply of Peiping in view of the ap:

of winter, Chinese reports Their investigations reveal that Peiping requires 700,000 tons of coal every. winter and Tientsin 00,000 tons, Tentative plans have been made to provide for the transportation of all Surplus coal stocks at Mentoukou, Toll and Choukoutien and any de-felt will be supplied by shipments from" coal producing districts in Shansi and other places—Reuter, Anti-British Move Revived Peiping, Sept, 30, Apparently because it is. thought that Britain's hands are fully occupied in Europe, the anti-British movement is being revived in some places in North China.

Shops at Kaifeng are threatened with confiscation of stock and temporary shutting down if they sell British goods after today.

'A Chinese newspaper' here advocates intensification of the movement and declares that the distribution of leaflets is useless. There must }be "achievements," it says, apparently meaning, thereby, direct action. [The presence of British goods on the market, the Chinese paper adds, is "disgrace to the Chinese nation."

Americans are also. experiencing trouble at Kaifeng, where a Japa lose-directed movement closed thi fils middle school conducted by the Catholic American Sisters of Providence—Reuter.

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