No Intention of Using Force Against of Wuhan Shanghai, May 13. the scene of the City of Nanking, six local Japanese journ-lists, including a representative of the Toho News Agency, visited the city, Leaving the North St am. on the 10th ins arriving there at 3 a.m. following day.
Upon arrival in the city, the party immediately called General Chiang Kai-shek, the Commander-in-Chief of" the Southern Am General Chis is ati not "attending his heudquarters, but is doing business at} the offices of the Political Committea the Nanking Government, which fave now established in the' official residence of Mr. Ting, the Salt] Tratic Commissioner The Leader's Regrets 'The Southern leader, in the course of the interview with' the Japanese visitors, remarked in the main as follows:
It is a matter for great regret there occurred an incident. at Kiangyin on the 7th instant in that the Japanese man-of-war on which /Renr-Admiral Oyamada, an aide-defeamp to the Emperor of Japan, was travelling, was fired upon. I have fat ready given instructions to out subordinates to make inquiry into the affair, but I have not yet received amy official report ubout the incident. Though the real state of adair is not known at present, I intend to take proper the matter hi Then turning to the question of the Wahan Government, the General] declared that he did not find it! necessary to resort to force in dealing with that Government, "As to {the campaign against the north", he continued, "the Southern forces are now making every preparation that they may shortly Munch a general attack upon the Northern troops, He concluded by saying that the number of the Northerners now stationed in Pokow—was very small and therefore they were beneath notice.
After the interview, Major Chi one of General Chiang's adjutants, conducted the' visitors to various! places in Nanking and Msiakuan, The party first visited the Japanese, British, and American Consulates, where they found that the buildings had been left as they were at the time of the looting. All foreign houses, with the exception of dam-_ aged ones, are not occupied by but ore sealed: up.. "It scemtis [cit to the visitors! that: tite Chinese
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