"When one recalls the brutal acts committed by the Japanese militarists at Tientsin against British nationals singled out for such treatment from among the foreigners, one marvels at the complacence with which the British Government has abandoned its firm stand on the principles adopted at the beginning of the Tientsin incident, first machine-gunned the forest their target cause they thought that there be guerillas hiding there.
one farmer was said to have killed, however.
order to avoid making "mean-ingles" sacrifices the militiamen retreated to the mountains waiting a better chance to attack, it is making extensive Searches the Japanese stationed themselves in two big temples, the Chi Shih and Pao Ban Tang. 70 men to "It is a curious reply to the deliberate searching, stripping and slapping of British men and women innocently seeking to cross the borders of the British Concession in Tientsin —acts which the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, himself described as intolerable indignities.'
"It seems," Dr. Koo continues in his statement, "that Britain has once more bowed to force and has swallowed her pride."
The Chinese envoy proceeds to Voice fears for repercussions of the agreement on^the general cause of peace.
"Certain it is that it cannot be expected to deter aggression or promote confidence in the efforts which the British Government is now making to build up a peace front against aggression in Europe," he says. "Its apparent disposition to accommodate aggression in the Far East may prove to be a boomerang."
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