Application to Consular Body for the Rentention retain the offices of the Nationalist Intelligence & Publicity Bureau at No. 25 Jinkee Road has been for-awarded by the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs to. the Consular Body and is at present being considered by them, it was learned on Sept. 20. The Municipal Council held a meeting that day to discuss the question of this bureau, bat no decision was arrived al, pending the result of the deliberations of the Consular Body.
Tt will be recalled that the Burew: was recently raided by the Muni cipal Police and 2 large quant of anti-Japanese propaganda seized. An order for the closing of the Bureau was issued by the Municipal Council and a time limit set for this to be done. Some of the anti-
Japanese propaganda was sub: sequently returned to the Bureau when it was shown that it did not belong to the Bureau and was not intended for distribution here.
The point at issue is, however, more important than the mere prevention paganda by an alleged government] office inside the Settlement; it is the establishment of any government office within Settlement limits] without permission having first] been obtained from the Municipal Council and the proper authorities. Until the raid was made, the Muni-1 Council "rad received official intimation that the opening. of such a Bureau had been intended or that the Bureau was functioning with government sanction, Since a formal application has, now been made, action by the Council is, it i= understood, being withheld until the decision of the Consular Body has been made known,
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