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SITUATION IN TIENTSIN & NORTH CHINA VILIFICATION OF BRITAIN IN CONTROLLED PRESS. SIR R. CRATGIE OPTIMISTIC. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) TOKIO, July 5. The conference regarding Tientsin is not expected to open before next week at the earliest. In the meantime the blockade of Tientsin continues and vilification of Britain in North China has been intensified in the Ja-panese-controlled Press. Sir R. Craigie (British Ambassador) stated that he was optimistic as to the outcome of the conference. No problems were insoluble if approached in a spirit of goodwill. If forceful tactics were employed a solution would be impossible and such tactics might lead to a catastrophe. WOMEN DEPART ON EVE OF BLOCKADE OF FOOCHOW. JAPANESE BOMBARDMENT THREAT. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Hong Kong correspondent says that nine English and American women have been evacuated from Foochow on the eve of a blockade of the harbour by means of booms and mines. The Japanese threatened to bombard the port at dawn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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