Tokyo, June 26.
An Anti-British mass meeting took place "at Kumamoto, in Southern Kyushu, yesterday, and was attended by more than 2,000 People, according 10 Japanese reports.
Atter adopting resolutions supnorting the policy of the Japanese Government in dealing with the Tientsin situation, it is stated, the meeting arns of encouragement and {thanks to the Premier, Baron Klichiro Hiranuma, the Foreign Minister; Mr. Machiro Arita, the. War' Minister; 'Lieut-Gen, Seishiro Itagaki, the Navy Minister; "Admiral Mitsumasa Yona}, and the' Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forees in North China, Gen. [Gen Sugiyama.
Thie meeting also. telegraphed its resolutions to the British Ambassador In China, Sir Archibald Kerr, according to these reports, urging him to "realize the new situation in East Asia, and to urge the London Government to give up its policy of assisting the Chiang Kai-shek regime, the sake of maintaining the peace Jof the world,"—Reuter, Tokyo, June 20.
"Questions in connection with railitary, political and economic tors regarding Tientsin will cert be involved in the conversations, declared the Japanese Foreign OMice spokesman at a press conference here this morning, in reply to a question on, the forthcoming talks in Tokyo.
Some of the fundamental prin ciples," he added, "may be touched He stated that the conversations between British and Japanese repre sentatives regarding "Tentsin would probably open towards the end of ext week at the offic residence the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The spokesman emphasized that the Issue was now beyond a matter of the delivery of the four Chinese alleged to have been implicated in the murder of Mr. Chen Shi-kang, Customs Commissioner. "He thought was essential to deal with the
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