Tokyo, June 30, The Japanese naval blockade of Foochow will be postponed for a few days in compliance with the request of the British Navy, Japanese Feports said today.
'H.MS, Delight and H.M.S. Daring, the two British destroyers an-bored near Foochow, left ihe Min River by noon yesterday to ave being bottled-up." The British Navy, however, requested that construction of certain parts of the boom be re~ farded for a few days to enable the British vessels to return to Foochow and pick up the British residents there, the Japanese reports asserted.
The blockade of Foochow will be completed when the British warships withdraw completely, "the Japanese reports said.
Meanwhile, Chekiang province has. been effectively blockaded by the Anti-British Agitation Tu Shansi Peiping, July 2.
Anti-British agitation "'in_ North Ching, heightened by the (tientsin dispute, fared up in violent out~ breaks in central Shansi late last month, belated reports reaching here today said, British. missionaries at Linfen, south of Taiyuan on the Tungpu Railway bisecting Shansi province from north to" south, were -given travelling permits by the Japanese military "authorities there, after they had Tequested authorization to evacuate the mission following an attack on the property on Sune 30. 'A mob of 50 to 60 Chinese, the reports said, broke into the mission, destroying' furniture and other house holds goods, before order, was, restored.
At Hungtung, also in Shanst, the blinds and window panes of the mission were broken of the night of June 26 by a number" of Chinese. Three days later, a demonstration was staged "outside the mission, when Chinese employees of the mis~ SHonaries were urged to quit.
'Demonstrations denouncing' British assistance to Gen, Chiang Kai-shek were held at Fengcheng on June 26 and at Lishul on June 29, the reports fadded. Nine hundred. persons. took part in the first, 600 in the second meeting, according to the dispatches, Anti-British Move in
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