Turmoil seldom—witnessed 'Shanghai featured the plenary session of the newly elected Council of the Japanese Residents' Corporation on March 25.
'Unabje to restore order at the session, the Chairman, Mr. Itsuji Ishida,' called a recess at 747 o'clock: in the evening, forty minutes atter the opening of the meeting.
This recess lasted until a fow nutes before midnight, when, fail ig to reconcile the opposing sides, Mr, Ishida adjourned the session.
"The uproar was caused by bitter recriminations between the members of the Chawa Kai, the old-timers' party, and the councillors representing Referring to the published criticisms of the method of selection of Japanese representatives on the Council made by Mr. Sumizo Eito and Mr. Torso Himori, Me. Kawai blamed them for the contretemps, seems to me." the consul-general declared, "that half of the criticisms Feforred to matters of public interest, while the other half was devoted to ive vent to personal grudges hope that in the interests of the community and of the nation," he continued, "our two nominees' will regard the matter as trivial and continue to devote their best efforts to the promotion of the interests of our residents."
Mr. Urabe and Mr, Yamamoto both apologized for their action in retusing the nomination, "The worst feature of the situation," Mr, Yamamoto said, "is. that we provided a scandal for Japanese as Well as foreigners to gloat over. Such state, of affairs must never be repeated." he said
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