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Strong condemnation of terrorism was volced on Aug. 2 st” a momentous meeting of the Consular Body, Jasting nearly three hours, reports the North China Daily News.
Fourteen treaty Consuls-General and Consuls, including Mr. A. H. George, British Consul-General; Mr. Richard F. Butrick, Acting American Consul-General; M. F. Auge, Consul-General for France; and M. Yosblaki Miura, Japanese Consul-General, attend- ed the adjourned meeting in Council Chambers at 3.30 p.m.
The meeting was convoked at the request of Mr. W. J, Ken- wick Chairman of the Shang- hal Municipal Council, who appealed to the Consular Rody for its assistance to check the recent wave of terrorism in the Settlement.
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HIGH TENSION The seriousness of the situation was only too apparent in the nigh tension that prevailed in the Coun- cil building before the meeting and br the set demeanour of the various Consuls on their arrival. The Municipal Police were there in force to marshal the crowd of curious onlookers and to supervise the and departure of the entry officials
No definite decision was reached at the meeting, but a statement was made to the Press at the end of the conference by M. Paul Scheel, Danish Consul-General and Chairman of the meeting, who is
might have assumed that he had proposed a recognition of the Nan- sing Government,
My point is," Mr. Miura deckar- ed, "that we should all fully re- cognize the actual circumútances under which the whole area around Shanghai has been placed, under Japanese occupation. and is now under the jurisdiction of the Nan- king Government
FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES "Accordingly, no room should be given to any organization, agent or element of the Chungking regime, which has long fled and is now the farthest barely existing in corner of China, at Chungking, to be allowed to exist and do any thing they wish, as they have been allowed to do, within the Settle. ment
"To see the activities of these Chungking elements entirely ter- minated in the Settlement, and to do away once and for all with the
at present acting Senior Consul in fundamental causes of terrorism the absence of Commander Fu of any political importance. Neyrone, the Italian Consul- the only prerequisites for General. This was to the effect establishment of peace and order the that a resolution had been passed in the Settlement. This is
the Consular Body, utterly point I tried to make clear at the condemning the acts of terrorism last meeting." recently witnessed in Shanghai,
IN CHUNGKING by
Mr. Ben Cowles," one of the two members of the Fellowship Mission- Sormed under the joint auspices of the American Youth Congress, the Intercollegiate Christian Council, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church and the International
of Coune!!
the Y.M.C.A has arrived in Chung- king.
The other member of the mission is Mr. Earnest Becker who is de-, layed in "Hongkong owing to ill- ness, says a Central News message.
Mr. Miurn then declared, "Since I believe that the draft resolutions proposed under the circumstances are harmful ones, despite their outward appearance to the con- trary. I prupose that they should be dropped.
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REINFORCEMENT ASKED "However, in consideration of the desires of my colleagues to adept some surt. of resolution, and to make it public. and with a view to co-uperating in the utmost as the Consul-General for Japan, I am prepared to propose an amend- ment."
THE RESOLUTION
The full text of the resold- tion was as follows: "That the Shanghai Consular Body, con- sidering that acts of terrorist are contrary to humanity and the cause of civilization, and having witnessed the highly tragic effects of such acts in Shanghai, places on record it utter condemnation of any and Every torm of terrorism by whomsoever perpetrated, and.
the taking note of
actual situation in the Shanghal area, urges the Shanghai Municipal Council to take full considera- tion of
the situation in the Shanghai area and to do it "utmost to maintain peace and order in the International Set- tlement by eradicating and suppressing all. forms of rorism." "In addition." stated M. that "while passing through Japan Scheel, "the Consular Body are thorities
Both Mr. Cowies and Mr. Becker are in the second year at the Union Seminary "of New York City. Starting from America, they have travelled through Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Pelping. Tsinan, Shanghai, Nanking and Hongkong. Mr. Cowles was entertained at a dinner party given by the China Branch of the International Student Federation last night.
JAPAN SHORTAGE Giving his impressions of" the Cowles sald trip to China. Mr.
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Immediately after the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Miura pro- posed, as a first step toward the wiping out of terrorism, that the Consular Body instruct the Shang- hal Municipal Council that the Shangha Municipal Police be re- ! 2001 inforced and that closer and more effective co-operation be carried Paul out among the other police au
including the French
ter.
be noticed the extreme shortage writing a letter to the Chairman Municipal Police, the Japanese of raw materials in that country. of the Council, making some' sug-Gendarmerie, the Japanese Con- Rubber. leather, cotton yarn and gestions, especially with regard to sular Police and the Police of the matches are becoming' rare. He the future collaboration of the Shanghal Special Municipality bought a towel. After he had used Police Force."
To Mr. Miura's proposal, a Consul-General pointed out" that the Shanghai Municipal Council was at present carry- ing out an economy program- me, and that such reinforce- ment of the Municipal Police as suggested by the Japanese Consul-General was
it only three times. he found it
AN OBJECTION already worn out as it was not: made of cotton yarn, but some
During the discussion on the substitute which was not durable phraseology of the resolution, it While in Korea, he asked to see was revealed. a Consul-General six students of a Methodist, mis voiced his objection to the words sonary school under imprisonment actual situation" contained in the but was refused. He was under resolution, on the grounds that it
the strict surveillance during his few
and inconsistent - with contained a great deal of political hours stay in Nanking and was
policy of economy afooted by even prevented from telephoning
the S.M.U.
his friend.
He will stay a week in Chung- king after which he will proceed
to
meaning
In replying to this obfection, the Japanese Consul General, Mr. Yoshiaki Miura pointed out that
Lanchow, Sian, Loyang and it was needless to say that these
ca next month.
difficult
NOT INCONSISTENI
The Japanese Consul-General
Chengtu, and will return to Ameri-Words contained political meaning. 35 the declaration that the rein- He stressed that these words mean forcement of the SMP. 15. Sub- that Shanghai and its surrounding gested by himself was not at all with the economy pation and were under the jurisprogramme being carried out by diction of the Nanking Govern-(the S.M.C., inasmuch as economy meant the dispensing of certain Upon the agreement of the orner funnecessary expenditures.
Mr. Miura pointed out that Confuls-General and Consuls. the
PROTECTED AREAS areas were under Japanese ocuu- inconsistent
IN BRITAIN LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter)-The ment Home Secretary, Sir John Ander- son, made a further Aliens (pro- Consul-trenerat withdrew his ob especially in view of the present tected areas) Order naming the counties of Cornwall, Devon and most of Somerset as protected
area
It also extends the protected i
Jections
AN AMENDMENT
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in proposing his amendment, arguments of Mr. Mura, the Con- which later was adopted as a realar Body adopted the Japanese
areas in Bucks and Northants. solution, Mr. Miura reiterated that official's proposal,
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The Order comes into effect on the Japanese authorities were pro-
Mr. Miura further referred to TURKISH PAPER Thursday next.
pared to offer their fullest co- the "impropriety of the proce operation for the suppression of dare taken by Mr. W. J. Keswick terroristic activities in the Inter-n making public to the press a the Senior. national Bettlement. He stressed etter addressed to
Comforts For Troops In Desert
·LONDON, Aug, 12 (Reuter)-A during the last meeting of broadcast from Cairo asking for Consular Body,
however, Mr. Miura recalled, comforts for British troops in ad- vance posts in the Libyan desert that the draft resolutions present-
SUSPENDED ISTANBUL, Aug. 12 (enter)
that he had made this port ceas Consul, before either the Senior The newspaper Cumhuriyet
the Consur, or the Consular Body had been suspended by a decision of the Connell of Ministers as the teen it.
result of publication of a matter "Impairing the country's general
ORAL WARNING
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The Japanese Consul-General policy."
has already brought in £5,000 sed, though they appeared harmless recalled that in March of last year,
far.
The Camburiyet recently pub.
at first sight, were not as innocent Mr. C. 8. Franklin, who was then lished an article favourably dis-
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ECONOMIC
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Japanese Supplies Running Low
·HINGTSI, Aug, 12 (Central)—As
a result of the tightening of the Chinese economic blockade and "mopping ap" operations, the Japanese troops in Shansi are ex- periencing great difficulty in secur- Ing supplies.
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out to Japanese parties sent forage food in various parts west Bhens have been severely beaten by the vigilant Chinese. Similar activities in south Shansi are mecting with stubborn resis- tance.."
Apart from food, the Japanese are trying to seize cotton and other necessaries from the Chinese villagers to replenish their sup- plies. Puppet authorities in various districts under Japanese occupa- tion are instructed to co-operate in this regard.
Highland Brigade In
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LONDON, Aug, 12 (BW8)--The Royal Mall steamer, Highland Brigade, arrived at Rio de Janeiro CHENGTU, Aug. 12 (Central)-on Saturday with 79 British child-" Under instructions of Generalls-ren who will "pend the war in are the simo Chiang Kai-shek who is con- South America. These currently Szechwan Governor, the first such children from Britain to Szechwan Provincial Government reach South America and the ves- has issued an order commending sel which brought them, is that an- the Szechwan Agricultural Imnounced by the German broadcast provement Bureau for its remark- Deuteschlandsender to be so over- able work in the past year....
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1 New Zealand, an Auckland as they appeared, Deep considera- Chairman of the Shanghai Muni-posed to the "new order of things" arm has sent £5,000 to the Bri-tion into the adoption of such re- cipal Councel, committed a similar in Europe as proclaimed by the Messrs.. Arthur Yates & Co. Ltd,
tish benevolent fund "in admira-solutions. Mr. Miura pointed out breach of procedure and was warn Adds powers.
tion of the armed forces of the would have brought about the ed at that time orally.... Merchant service."
effect of encouraging, or at least Mr. Miura pointed out that as stimulating the territoriste activi- the warning to Mr. Franklin, had HEALTH RETURNS ties of Chungiding elements. been given orally, and had not been
The following, is the
Health ended
JAPANESE STAND
CONDUCT OF WAR STATEMENT
placed on record, "the present im Returns for the 48 hours
propriety of procedure by Mr, LONDON, August 12 (Reuter)— Parliament is due to adjourn for a at midnight, on August 11: 'The Japanese stand regarding Keswick occurred,
The Japanese "official then pro-short recess on August 22 bat Small-Pox, one. case; Diphtheria, this matter, the Consul-General three cases Enteric Fever, four said, was made cleat at the last posed that a warning to Mr. Kes before that there will be a debate cases (one imported); Measles, one meeting of the Consular Body. He wick be, sent in written form: The on the conduct of the war in which case; Dysentery, seven cases; Tu- added that he had felt at that proposal was unanimously adopted the Prime Minister will make a
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