CONCESSION CONTROL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12821, 16 August 1939, Page 5

CONCESSION CONTROL

ARMOURED CARS BRITISH PRECAUTIONS IN TIENTSIN JAPANESE ANIMOSITY Loudon, Aug. 14. Armoured cars are patrolling the "British concession in Tientsin, owing to the outbreak of an intensive antiBritish campaign. The appearance of two British armoured cars caused Japanese soldiers, who were illegally searching a Chinese junk moored at British wharves, to take to their heels. A Chinese crowd cheered. At Tsingtao an anti-British mob attacked the British and American tobacco plant at Itu and damaged furniture and windows. All British subjects have now been evacuated from. Shansi. The ‘‘News Chronicle” Tokio correspondent says that the Japanesecontrolled Provincial Government 1 has taken over the administration of British-owned coal mines in North Hunan. A Tokio message says the Japanese in the course of a gun duel across the Kala River, claim to have silenced Russo-Mongolian fire and killed General Yokovleff.