The Mayor's reply to the foreign moval authorities reads as follows:
I have the honour to acknowledge th. receipt of your letter of September 19, wherein you state that for the past month the population of the Internation-been subjected to the dangers of antiaircraft fire and that while simile representations have been made to the Japanese authorities, you request that steps be taken by those in command or the Chinese forces to prevent their planes from flying over or near, the international Settlement and to direct their anti-aircraft fire in such a manner as to d further killing of non combatants, In reply, I beg to state that with Japan making use of the International Settlement and the heart of the Whangpoo River as the bases of her aggressive Operations against China, the Chinese alr force has been compelled to take regard it as most deplorable that Chinese and foreign lives and properties in the International Settlement and the French Concession should have beet thus endangered, and with a view to ensuring security fo those area" the military authorities have already issued strict orders to the air force as well as to other forces that care be taken to avoid, whenever possible, such action as may cause ler to the noncombatants in the Settlement and the Concession.
Aw the fundamental cause of the danger to the non-combatants in the Settlement and the Concessior les in the fact that the Jay forces are making use of the Settlement es the base of their hostile operations, I have the honour to request that the American, British, French, Ttalian and Nother-lands naval authorities will, in the interests of the areas involved, take such steps as will remove the fundamental "cause of danger.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.