No Operation Endangering Japanese Mlowed Tokyo, May 17.
The Government has instructed the Japanese Minister at Peking and the Japanese Consul-Geneval at Nanking {0 deliver staten Generalissimo Chang Tso General Chiang Kai-shek, pectively, which, it understood, are a wai ig that Japan will not be able to countenance any opera tion endangering the lives and property of Japanese nationals.
'A full statement will be published to-morrow, In the meantime the diplomatic representatives of the foreign Powers in Tokyo have been invited to the Foreign Office, where Japan's motive will be explained for the purpose of obtaining an understanding. Reuter, Mr, Lo Wei-chao, Mayor of Nanking. has appointed the following local merchants to the Commission of Reconstruction in Ningpo Messrs, Chen Yung-kuan, Fong Chu-pah. L.T. Yuan, Sun Mei-tong. Hsu, Ching-yan, Wa Tz-hao, Liv Zang-yn, Chen Te-chien, Yang Chuting, Wei Pah-ching, Vu Pao-san, and 'CP. Lech
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