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Lord Cecil Urges Boycott Of Japanese Goods
LONDON, TO-DAY.
FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE, BOTH CHINESE AND FOREIGN, SAT DOWN TO A “RICE BOWL DINNER" IN AID OF CHIN- ESE MEDICAL RELIEF LAST NIGHT.
The
Lord party included
the China Listowel, chairman of Campaign Committee, Mr. Quo Tai- chi, the Chinese Ambassador, and his wife, Lord Cecil, and M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, and Mme. Maisky.
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There was great enthusiasm when Lord Listowel read Reuter's telegram reporting the Chinese
victory on the south Yangtse front.
BULWARK OF PEACE -
Lord Cecil said that the Chinese were one of the bulwarks of the peace of the world. To the best of his knowledge they had never in recent times begun an aggressive
-ARAB
ATTACK FAILS
Jerusalem, To-day. Eleven Arabs were killed and three captured when a mounted gang accompanied by others on foot, attempted a daylight-at- tack on a stockaded settlement near Beisan.
A British officer was slightly wounded.-Reuter.
war, and they were now fighting EUROPEANS
in self-defence for their freedom and country against the most un- just and intensive military inva- sion ever.
He expressed
profoundest sym-
pathy for the magnificent defence and noble self-sacrifice with which the Chinese were standing up to the invaders.
The League of Nations had pro- nounced China in the right and Japan in the wrong, and the duty of members of the League there- fore was quite clear.
TWO COURSES
Military intervention was ob. viously out of the question but he urged two possible courses,
Firstly, we should organise ourselves to refuse to buy any article of Japanese production, and
Secondly, we should urge the Government to give financial assistance to China.
BATTLE FOR PEACE
Lord Cecil asked if it should be said of us in this country that in our joy a
at obtaining p
peace for ourselves we were forgetting those in China who were fighting
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INVOLVED IN ROBBERY
Two Europeans are alleged to have been involved in a petty robbery at Kennedy Town last night.
In a report to the police, Leung Tung, 38, carpenter at Mount Davis Fort, stated that at 10.45 last night two Euro- peans robbed him of $6 in notes near Skott's Godown, Kennedy Town.
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After taking the money they pushed him into a godown but he managed to free himself and followed them for some distance, but eventually lost sight of them.
The Europeans were stated to be dressed in white shirts and shorts and to have the appearance of being soldiers..
LOCAL ARCHITECT
PASSES
We much regret to have to an- just a battle for their own peace.
He refused to believe that our nounce the death of Mr. William country would accept so miserable C. Felshaw, of Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, who passed
a position.
Other speakers were Mr. Quo away at the Matilda Hospital last. Tai-chi, Mr. Peter Fleming, - the night, author and London “Times" corres- pondent, who graphically described what he had seen of war in China,
She movingly
ism,
and Miss Rose Tou, a Chinese girl and the who has been working on medical Chinese relief behind the Chinese lines and pealed for help
Reuter has, Just arrived in England.
described the
Chinese soldiers sufferings of the and earnestly ap the Chinese.
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