Whenever a certain British resident in Yicheng, south Shansi, made a trip somewhere, the message continues, it was always followed by an attack by a large Chinese force on a Japanese garrison. "Investigations into the matter," it says, "revealed thats the Briton in question was in communic tion with Chinese forces,"
Instances are reported to have been disclosed where British missionaries living in the vicinity of Huntung and Linfeng "have been supplying news of the movements of the Japanese forces to the Chinese army at Luan."
A Briton living in Hsiahsien, Squthwestern Shansi, is alleged to lave "exhorted the Chinese people not to receive free medical treatment from the Japanese Pacfücation Corps."
A Briton is also said to have been spreading a rumour that "in the near future Great Britain, Soviet Russia and other Powers would join in an economic sanction against Japan," and that the "Chinese people should not accept the notes of the Federal Reserve Bank of China as they would become useless."—Reuter.
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