ANTI-BRITISH MOVE BY JAPANESE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 157, 29 March 1939, Page 9

ANTI-BRITISH MOVE BY JAPANESE

Expulsion From China Urged LONDON, March 27. The Shanghai correspondent of “The Times” states that anti-British agitation in Chinese newspapers under Japanese control is becoming daily' more violent. The formation of an Anti-British League in Nanking is announced. One Nanking newspaper devoted its front page to slogans demanding a boycott of British goods, the confiscation of British property, the recovery of British concessions, and the expulsion of all British subjects from China. Following the capture of Nanchang. the Japanese are threatening Waning, on the border of Kiangsi and Hunan. Their control of a long section of the Chekan railway strangles an important channel of munitions supply, in addition to Chinese exports, which have been affected since the Yangtse and Canton Rivers were closed. LOANS TO CHINA Partial Discontinuance Of Service CHUNGKING. March 27. It is stated officially that China is partly discontinuing the service of foreign loans totalling £18,250,000 secured on Hie salt, revenues, similarly to the action taken in January in respect to loans secure'd on the Customs revenue. The Anglo-French loan falls due ou April 5. It will be fully paid.

AMBASSADORS IN FAR EAST TO CONFER (British Official Wireless.) (Received March 28. 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY. March 27. Ar the end of the week the British Ambassador in Tokio, Sir Robert Craigie. is sailing from Japan to Shanghai, where he will spend a few days. While he is in Shanghai he will have an opportunity to meet Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr, the British Ambassador in China. The Ambassadors will doubtless welcome the chance of reviewing together the general position in the Far East.