CONTINUED AGITATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 9

CONTINUED AGITATION

PROTEST TO JAPAN

SURPRISE AND CONCERN IN

LONDON

(British Official AA:ireiess.)

(Received August 3, 11.15 a.m.)

RUGBY, August 2,

The Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons that the British Ambassador in Tokio, Sir Robert Craigie, had been instructed to enter a further vigorous protest against the continuation of anti-British agitation in North China. He also assured members that the Government Avas maintraining contact with France and America.

Mr. Chamberlain said that no decision had been reached regarding the handing over of the four Chinese held at Tientsin.

Surprise and concern are expressed in London at the continuance of antiBritish agitation in the Japanese-occu-pied areas in China. The formula upon which the Tokio negotiations Avere opened wa;j accepted on the undertaking that order in these areas Avould be maintained. Such demonstrations imply a negation of order. If the Japanese are unable to carry out their guarantee, it is felt here that it should not have been given. On the other hand, if, as is believed, it lies Avithin Japan's poAver to suppress these agitations, they should at once be put down.