The Archive · 1927

JAPANESE MINISTER' STATEMENT

Chiang Kai-shek's Apology Con" sidered Insufficient Peking, April 1. with Japanese Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Minister, stated in the main as follows:—"AS to the ing outrage, Japan is prepared to take formal steps. The report that General Chang Kai-shek's Chief of Stal visited Japanese authorities at Shanghai and apologized for the Nanking outrage is correct but I cannot regard it as of an official nature, No matter the North or the South, preservation of order in China at this chaotic moment, is very difficult, and it is inevitable that much uneasiness will be given, to foreigners, "Protection of Japanese in Peo king and Tientsin in an emergency is now being considered but no cone sideration is being paid to new defence measures:—Toho, ants Patey of Phiet Commarnist OrAdight a Mere Communist Aticka Med.

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