Tientsin, June 29, Mr, Cecil Davis, honorary agent for the New Zealand Government and president of the Country Club who "was searched, stripped, and ruck across the mouth by Japanese sentries last_ week, today passed through the Race Course Road bar-ler without being halted or roughly Searched, This fact was taken as felear evidence that the sentries were Strictly obeying the orders of Lieu tenant-General" Masaharu Homma, [Garrison Commander, to cease their stripping activities snd. crude mothods of searching. British and foreign business within the Concession, however, remains at a virtual stand: stil, Meanwhile, a representative Bue ton here privately expressed greater hope for a settlement of the local Mish difficulties through Japanese involvement in a large-scale war with Soviet Russia than in the forth~ coming Tokyo conference, He wi [seconded by a British banker who pointed out that the Japanese de-Mand for ce-operation and support fof the Federal Reserve currency was impossible.
When the rumour spread that the British Government intends to trade recognition of the Japanese conquer in North China for the reopening of the Yangtze River and greater freedom for foreign trade in the Yan {ze Valley, the British community wes generally alarmed.—United Press.
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