Tokyo, June 20.
"It is up to Japan to show by deeds that the pursuit by Britain of a policy of provoking this country will only reduce it to a disadvantageous pos tion," declares the "Nichi Nichi" in a leading article on the situation in Tientsin.
"The blockading of the British and French Concession in Tientsin," it acids, "should be continued with a determination to reduce the British area to ruins, "If the British Concession has cease ed to exist but in name, we may look for reforms in the attitude of the authorities of the French Concession, and for reconsideration by the authorities of the Shanghai International Settlement and other foreign Concessions in China of their present attitude of assisting the Chiang regime in its juggle against this country."
The "Nichi Nichi" alleges that the foreign areas in China "have been the scene of acts of anti-Japanese terrorism, and it is in these areas that the Chinese national currency, which was prohibited by the "Provisional Government" of Peiping, ha been circulating freely, to the detri ment of the new regime's curren policy."
"The attitude of the authorities of the concessions towards this country and the new regime in North China, an attitude that has little to di tinguish it from that of an enemy, the newspaper adds, "is one whose reform is a matter of urgency to this country, which is making great national sacrifices in attaining the objectives of the China incident."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.