We are able to state authori tively that no formal protest has been inde by the Nationalist Government over the raid by the police of the Intelligence and Publicity Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs ut 25 Jinkee Road. Thus far, all that has been done, 30 we are informed, was an informal, verbal statement to the Senior Consul by the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, when the former w the' latter fon other business on Aug. 28, In addition to this, two secretaries of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs called Mr. Fessenden yesterday to discuss the question.
The attitude of the Municipal Council towards this particular question and the general question of the Nationalist Government maintaining offices in the Settlement is that the Shanghai Municipal Council doos not have clairvoyant powers, an office of a suspicious nature is, opened and the Council has not, been officially notified and consulted, tha Council will act within its' discretion, The Council is generally opposed, it is understood, to Govern ment offices being dumped into the Settlement, when they might just as well remain. in Nantao and Chapel, The opening of Government offices in the Settlement is It has been generally. reported Ministry whic that the Secretary's Office of the Route Ghiai since the arrival of the Nationalist Government in Shanghai, was shortly to be moved to the French Concession.
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