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Japan’s Reply to Mr Chamberlain’s Speech SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE IN BRITISH CONCESSION THREAT TO MISSION CONGREGATION IN SHANSI (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) TIENTSIN, August 5. 'Die blockade has been rigorously tightened, presumably as a reply to Mr Chamberlain’s speech in the House, of Commons on Friday. Meat is not available, and people trying to take m even halt' a pound are being, turned back at. the barriers. Onions, cabbages, and potatoes, all df inferior quality, are the only foodstuffs that can be purchased. The residents of the concession have been reduced to tinned foods. The position is serious. Sixteen British missionaries have been compelled to lease Taiyuan, in Shansi Province, as a result of threats by the Japanese-sponsored anti-British Committee. Pickets attested a congregation of lnO people and threatened them with execution if they attended services. The missionaries departed in order to prevent mass murder.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 5
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