Mr, Suma also took issue with Mr. Chen on the refusal of the Chinese authorities to allow Mr. Eilcht Iwai to enter Chengtu, Szechuen, on the grounds that the city is not an open treaty port, Mr. Iwai, formerly with the Embassy in Shanghai, was recently appointed acting consul-general and instructed to proceed to the Szechuen capital to re-open the Japanese consulate-general there, telosed since 1032 when anti-Japanese Agitation reached ts peak.
Pointing out that Japanese officials hiad_been stationed' in Chengtu for more than 18 years Mr. Suma asked for u reconsideration of the Chinese attitude, The simpliest way, he is understood to have pointed out, was to make Chengtu a treaty port.
Mr, Chen, itis understood, promised to reply to the Japanese demarches after conferring with Gen. Chang Chun, the Foreign Minister, who Is expected to return here at the end of this month—Domel, In the course of their investigations into the death of Kin, the French Police found no evidence of anatlempt to blow up either the Japanese Consulate-General or the Kabukiza Theatre. Questioned on the night of August 24, the police stated that the bombs probably being manufactured were apparently of the clarette {in type, which could do tittle damage. 'They' said, however, that Investigations had since been handed: over 10 the Japanese Consular police.
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