PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPANESE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 15

PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPANESE

Small Procession In Wellington

The attention of late night shopping crowds in the Wellington city streets last night was attracted by a procession of men and women wending its way along the principal thoroughfares and bearing placards inscribed with antiJapanese propaganda. The procession consisted of about eight men and two women and all except one elderly man carried a placard. The exception carried instead a baby in arms, the significance of which kept the crowd guessing. The spectators for the most part stared in silence.

The banners were inscribed with such remarks as “Boycott Japanese Goods,’\“China Conquered Means New Zealand Threatened,” “For China and Humanity Refuse Japanese Goods,” “Sav a e Chinese Children,” and “Japanese Goods Mean Japanese Bombs.” They were also adorned with fearsome faces of Japanese soldiers, with teeth projecting and bloodstained sabres in hand.

The procession paused in front of the big chain-store buildings and waited for some moments before proceeding. At the corner of Cuba and Vivian Streets It finally halted and, after various members had harangued those who cared to listen, it disbanded.