GREAT WAVE OF HATE AGAINST BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 9

GREAT WAVE OF HATE AGAINST BRITAIN.

JAP AH INCENSED. Determined To Crush "Enemy Of Humanity. ,, UGLY DEMONSTRATIONS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 14. A huge crowd gathered at the British Embassy at Tokyo at 2 p.m. shouting anti-British slogans. Extra police were rushed to. the Embassy, but failed to disperse rhe mob, which was worked up to a, frenzy and began I" hurl stones at windows and tried to crush the gates with motor cycles. A delegation delivered a resolution at the hinb.issy stating that 7,000 000 citizens of Tokyo are determined to overthrow Britain, which is the enemy of humanity. The drmorintnttion was the largest agninnt a foreign Power in the history cjt ilapan. Anti MiiUsh demonstrations in 27 oilier cities demanded a boycott of foreign trade with Britain and Australia. Tt is estimated that l.">, 000,000 people nt tended yesterday's demonstrations throughout .Japan. Tientsin Talks Prelude. On tho eve of the negotiations between Britain and Japan concerning Tientsin. Tokyo is plastered with posters: "Punch the British Nose!" "Let Us All Knock the British!" The British Ambassador to Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigie. and the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, will meet for preliminary talks regarding Tientsin to-day and to-morrow. "The Times" says that if the Japanese introduce extraneous subjects in the Tientsin conference, for instance, cooperation, Britain will announce that flie will not discuss matters prejudicial to herself or to other Powers. The Dome! news agency at Shanghai says everything at Tientsin depends on the British attitude in the Tokyo negotiations. The blockade is merely the first stnge, and Japan is widening it by two further stages and tightening it up progressively. The Japanese Consul-Geueral at Tsingtao told the British Consultienernl that the Japanese would not protect British lives or pioperty in future if the British protested and claimed damages for the attack on the British Consulate and British firms' premises by a Chinese mob on Wednesday. The British Consul has appealed for guidance from London. An Independent Cable Service message from Tokyo states that two bombs were thrown at the British Consulate at Tsingtao, in the course of a big antiBritish demonstration. Several window* were broken, but there were no casualties. The Japanese Consul called and apologised and promised a full investigation. A Japanese news agency at Shanghai says that the Central China anti-British Federation at Nanking, passed a resolution proposing temporary custody of British property to be returned when Britain changes her attitude to events in China, The Governor of Hongkong has approved of the conscription of ablebodied Britons for defence. Some 2500 are effected, 1700 of whom are liable for combatant service, 750 having volunteered.

MANCHUKUO FIGHTING. RUSSIA'S BROADCAST CLAIM. Independent Coble Service. LONDON, July 14. A Moscow broadcast yesterday stated that 2000 Japanese had been killed and :i.->OO wounded in fighting west of the Khalkhagol River, involving artillery, tanks, aircraft and infantry, since July (i. Casualties admitted by the Soviet were 2t>3 killed and 633 wounded. The broadcast reported that simultaneously there were fierce air battles at Lake Buir, the Russians claiming victory in every one, resulting in 61 Japanese aeroplanes being brought down and 12 Japanese airmen captured. Their names were given in the broadcast, which added that between May 28 and July 12 199 Japanese machines had been shot down. The Soviet losses were given as 52.