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BRITISH EMBASSY PEKING.
21st July 1939
£34
Sir and dear Colleague,
On 19th July reports were current in Peking
of the holding the previous evening of a mass meeting
of Japanese residents, during the course of which
anti-British addresses were made. This meeting was
said to have taken place on the glacis to the south-
west of the junction of the Chang An Chieh and Hatamen
Street, near the Tung Tan P'ai Lou.
2.
This report was reproduced in greater
detail in the press on 20th July in the statement
attributed to the Domei News Agency, which is quoted
herebelow for convenience of reference:-
"PEKING JAPANESE OPEN AIR RAL Y ATTACKS BRITAIN.
A public lecture meeting sponsored by the
local Japanese Residents' Corporation and the
Ex-Servicemen's Association and held at the Tung
Tan Pai Lou glacis at 7.30 o'clock on Tuesday
evening as part of the programme for the current
Spiritual Mobilisation campaign suddenly bore
a different character following a speech delivered
by a Japanese army officer, analysing Japan's
effort in constructing a new order in East Asia,
vehemently attacked Britain's Far Eastern policy.
Three thousand excited Japanese audience
forthwith motioned that the meeting be changed
into a "third Anti-British Meeting".
After a number of volunteer orators took
the rostrum one after another, each denouncing
Britain, the rally closed with the adoption of
Mr. T. Horiuchi,
/ a
Japanese Embassy,
PEKING.
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