Tokyo, Jan. 10.
Replying to questions at his daily press conference to-day, the spokesman of the Foreign Office declined to divulge the demands put £0 the Shanghai Municipal Council by the Japanese.
The SMC. he said, had not yet replied to the demands, which, he revealed, had been presented by' Mr. S. Okamoto, the Japanese Consul Gevoral, "on his own initiative."
The spokesman was then question ed concerning the "Brenan Road Incident," in which two members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, Proba tionary Sergeant A. R. Turner and Inspector F. G. West, were beaten by Japanese soldiers.
He replied that he had not yet received a report, but understood that the trouble started when a British policeman used language insulting to the Japanese Army, which Japanese policeman resented—Reuter.
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