The Archive · 1939

Ca-operation Demanded

The resolutions are said to urge Great Britain to reconsider her attitude, and "warn her that the people of North China will continue in their anti-British campaign unless and until Great Britain liquidates her pro-Chiang Kai-shek attitude in favour of ce-operation with North China in the construction of a new order in East Asia."

These resolutions are reported to have been circularized in various quarters, After the mass meeting, the demon-strafers paraded through the streets of Peiping.

A. Japanese press message from Tientsin states that the anti-British agitation was particularly rampant there. The demonstrators are said to have included seamen, stevedores, workers, hotel-men, school teachers and tradesmen.

"Some 130000 Mohammedans in Tientsin," the message declares, "have also taken up an anti-British campaign."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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