London, June 15.
It was announced in the House of Commons today that Mr. David Adams, Labour member for the Con-sett division of, Durham, will ask the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, on June 19 if the Government proposes to maintain in view of the gravity of the principle involved, the inviolability of the British Concession, at Tientsin—Reuter.
Agitators, who yesterday failed in their attempts to incite a crowd of about 2,000 Chinese to rush the British Concession defences, were reported today to have visited several Chinese laundries in the former German Concession, catering to foreigners. They are said to have abused the owners and workers for "washing the dirty linen of foreigners."
They are also reported to have exhorted the laundry workers to "throw off the yoke of the foreigners" and to have rounded off their work by breaking up laundry baskets, throwing clothing and around.
The food situation showed little improvement during the day. While some more vegetables appeared in Japanese Demands on Concession Tokyo, June 16.
The Japanese "terms" for calling off the "isolation" of the British Concession, according to a Japanese press message from Tientsin, provide that:
1. A joint British and Japanese search be made for authors of terroristic acts already perpetrated and those which may be committed in the future.
Anti-Japanese elements in the British Concession be thoroughly controlled. All attempts to disturb the economic operations undertaken by the "Peking Government" in North China be liquidated.
Silver specie, amounting to about C$50,000,000, now held by Chinese banks in the British Concession, be handed over to the "Peking Government."
The Japanese authorities in Tientsin, it continues, "are determined to keep up the isolation of the British Concession until and unless these terms are fully accepted and carried out.
They are also prepared," the message concludes, "to take efficient, effective countermeasures against fresh British provocation."—Reuter. still high, the quality was poor, and there was not much choice.
Some milk was also brought in in lorries, but the shortage is still acutely felt.
Some apprehension was felt in the British Concession today regarding the reported intention of Japanese residents to march into the Concession, ostensibly to pay homage to the graves of Japanese killed in the Boxer Rebellion The British authorities have the matter under their consideration.
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