Tokyo, Oct. 24.
On receipt, of secret instructions from the Comintern, the Chinese Communist Party immediately con-Voked an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee and discussed the date of the start of an anti-British campaign in China, according to Japanese reports, also alleged that the Comintern not only plans to alienate the Chung-Government and "Britain and France, but also to Bolshevize the Chungking Government—Reuter, Briton Said to Have {Aided Guerillas Shanghai, Oct.:9.
Allegations that the Rev, 1. S, W. Ryding, a British missionary' ai Chentit, in Honan, had had connec-ions with guerillas who had attacked the town and had caused considerable damage, were made yesterday by a Japanese Army spokesman in Shanghai when denying reports that there was anti-foreign and anti-American feeling in Chen According to the Army spokesman Mr. Ryding le(t for Tsingtao on September 7 following a spontaneous movement by the Chinese citizens Chenliu. After conditions had quietened down in the town he returned, the spokesman added, He continued that early on the morning of September 13 a number of guerilla forces attacked the town and heavy casualties were suffered by Chinese civilians, Afler various investigations had been made. it had been discovered that Mr. Ryding was in close touch with the guerilla, forces which had attacked the town, Mr. Ryding again withdrew. to Tsingtao, the spokesman continued, when 300 Chinese civilians, who had heard of his activities, insisted secing him. On September 28 Miss Petersen, an American missionary, was sent to Chenliu in his place Aller secing various parts of the town damaged by the guerillas she toft of her own tree will, said that spokesman, and went to Tsingtao on October 3. It was absolutely untrue, hho concluded, that there was an ant foreign or anti-American feeling the city.
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