Peiping, July 20.
Every bit of progress in the Tokyo negotiations appears to be the signal for a further outburst of anti-British agitation in Peiping under the auspices of a so-called "anti-British committee, The city is at present simply flooded with violent ' anti-Britisn. posters, which can be seen in all public places, on the trunks of trees, telephone posts and pillar boxes.
The chief slogans on them are: "Down with the British!"
The population, however, appears disinterested and unmoved by the anti-British exhortation.
Meanwhile. there is no visible effect. among the Japanese here of the United States action in denouncing her commercial treaty with Japan.
Efforts were made to exclude the news from the papers and to keep the Chinese populace ignorant, but the news leaked out, and informed Chinese appear as jubilant as they were despondent over the Anglo-Japanese agreement earlier in the
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