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fresh provisions as were supplied to them wers not in any way used to assist British or Japanese. Failing such an assurance their provisions would be cut off.
The Customs Hess is now also allowed food as a
result of representations to affect that Customs is a Chinese Service and the closing down of it would advantare
no one.
5. The Commanding Officers of "Saormento", "Komahashi" and "Bluebell" conferred together on 8th July.
"Komahashi" desired the other ships to land Consulate Guards so that all three nations should be in same position internationally.
After discussion it was decided that landing of nnarmed guards could raise no outery and the Consulate arms would be used by them if it became necessary.
6. The Japanese have now organised an efficient net work of signalling posts on house tops so that early information of disturbances of mob collecting oan be given.
7. The circumstances leading to the outbreak on 1st July when 3 so called British Hotels (Singapore Chinese owned, etc.) a B.A.T. Saleroom, and 7 Japanese Establishments were thoroughly broken up appear to be as follows:-
All these places fly foreign flaga and thus have
●luded squeezen of various kinds to the annoyance of other Chinese proprietors who could not claim foreign nationality.
The students proceeded to placard them as being places no true hearted Chinaman would patronise; the socompanying crowd concurred and proceeded to make it
The Police made no impossible for them to be patronised. effort to interfere but the students seem to have tried to ohoak them and eventually saved the Taiwan Bank from a
similar fate.
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