UNREST AMONG JAPANESE
FEARS OF UPHEAVAL X.Z. PRIEST'S IMPRESSIONS (I'fir Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this clay. "While in the East. I was informed by a highly-placed official who is in a position to know the facts that the unrest in Japan lias assumed such grave proportions among the people that there is the greatest possibility of an interna] upheaval within the next six months,"' said the Rev. Father J. A. Eccleston, parish priest of Tauranga, who returned by the steamer Tasman from a tour of the Netherland Indies and Indo-China.
Formerly of Greymouth, Father Eccleston was once a well-known Rugby player and referee. He said that anti-Japanese feeling was so strong in the Fast that Japan's trade
was melting away. In some cases there had ! bee:i riots and Chinese shops suspected of selling Japanese goods had been destroyed. The Chinese were so infuriated toy the invasion that the boycott had 'been instituted effectively.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 7
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