Fiery Manifesto by Gendarmerie and Municipality The Headquarters of the Shanghai and Woorung Gendarmerie and the Special Municipality of Greater Shanghai have jointly issued the following declaration in reference to the massacre of Nationalist officials and us by Japanese troops at Tsinanfu, May $4:—"The acts of massacre, murder and incendiarism committed by the Japanese soldiers in Tsinan on the Bnd and 4th, in stark disregard of all accepted conceptions of humane practices and morality, are unparalleled in the annals of international crimes. We have only to mention the indiscriminate massacre of our people; the unprovoked bombardment of our troops, resulting in casualties of over a thousand;) the burning of foreign offices;" the sacking of out telegraph station at Changtsin; and the murder of Commissioner Tsai Kung-shih_ and his staff, after having first sliced off his ears and nos"
"We maintain that these are premeditated acts of agarcssion, ca! culated and perpetrated as wilful measures to impair our sovereignty and prestige asa nation. We maintain also that it is the deliberate tention of the Japanese Government to antagonize Chinese Nationalism; witness the despatch of such large and powerful forces to Tsinan in anticipation. We, therefore, demand that the Japanese Government be called upon to take entire responsibility for this tragic happening.
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