NO PROGRESS IN TOKYO

Southland Times, Issue 23888, 5 August 1939, Page 7

NO PROGRESS IN TOKYO

Ambassador Waits For Instructions BRITAIN ACCUSED OF INSINCERITY Action In Consulting France And U.S.A. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received August 4, 7.30 p.m.) TOKYO, August 4. The Anglo-Japanese conference is marking time. The British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) awaits instructions. The Press complains of British insincerity in consulting France and America, as the question concerns Britain and Japan alone. It adds that if the British show sincerity the demonstrations will automatically cease. In any case, there is no reason to complain in view of the anti-Japanese movement in England last year, when the Japanese Embassy was insulted and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Lytton addressed demonstrations in the Albert Hall.

The Shanghai correspondent of The Times says that violent anti-British posters have been plastered up in

Chefoo. Chinese patients in the British Mission Hospital at Choutsun, including serious cases, have been ordered to leave.

A high Government official declared that British resistance to the currency issue in China and the abrogation of the commercial treaty by the President of the United States (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) were forcing Japan into a military alliance with Italy and Germany, which might be concluded at any moment. Twenty-five thousand persons demonstrated outside the British Embassy carrying banners: “Down with Britain.” A deputation delivered anti-British resolutions. THREAT OF FLOODS IN NORTH CHINA HAI HO RIVER RISING x RAPIDLY LONDON, August 3. As the result of the beginning of the monsoon rains Tientsin is among many centres in North China threatened with floods. The Hai Ho river, which flows through it, is rising rapidly and is only three feet below the level of the British Concession. Hundreds of refugees are already pouring into Tientsin The dykes on the Grand Canal have burst and many nearby villages are inundated.

The Yellow river flooding is expected to be infinitely worse than the floods of last summer, which were the worst in 80 years and in which hundreds of thousands were drowned and 2,000,000 were left homeless. The banks and dykes have fallen into dangerous disrepair as a result of the war and the waters are rising in several provinces. The blockade of the foreign concession at Tientsin has been tightened up again. Each dairy is permitted to send in a daily maximum of 100 bottles of milk, while residents of the concession, returning from shopping, are lined up and allowed to take in only a small amount of foodstuffs.