Purchase from. Japanese By Britain Considered as Letting Down Concession Tientsin, June 24.
Considerable concern and resentment has been aroused here by the report from London that British firms have purchased Japanese canned salmon worth about £1,750,000.
This news has tended to dampen the heartening effect of the strength of public opinion in Great Britain condemning Japan's action in Tientsin.
It is argued that such a deal shows either callous disregard or entire lack of appreciation of the consequences in the prolongation of the Sino-Japanese war and the strength of the economic pressure designed to eliminate foreign, particularly British, interests in the Far East.
That this deal should have been consummated at a time when Britons are doing their country's work under conditions of tremendous difficulty and' intolerable outrages, it is pointed out, makes the heart sink and causes the man-in-the-street to wonder whether it is worth while continuing the struggle and making sacrifices.
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