The Cabinet's Planning Board, which is stated to have been "con sidering measures to deal with Shanghai in the future," "has worked oura plan to effect a complete change there, says. the This, it says, will be done on the basis of redevelop ment of Greater Shanghai and the Formation of a new city distr at Woosung. The plan, the "Asahi" declares, is expected to material ize with the emergence of 3 new municipality of Greater Shanghai friendly towards Japan, The president of the Planning Board hax reported the scheme to the Cabinet which, according to the newspaper, "decided that the Japanese Government should give its ult ce-operation for "the realization of such a Chinese plan."—Reuter, the areas to Japanese fears of secret Chinese activities to cause disturb The spokesman did not reply to a suggestion that there were no Chinese in. the areas.
Turning to reports that Viscount Ishii, "Japan's goodwill envoy Europe, had made certain private proposals to Britain, the spokesman re-Herated that Viscount Ishii was not Jqualified to do anything of the kind. He did not think the Japanese Gov: Jernment wax paying the envoy's The spokesman, however. revealed that the Foreign Office sometimes indirectly made contact with Viscount Ishii through the Japanese Ambassador in London, Mr, Yoshi In regard to the remark made in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. C. R. Attlee, the Leader of the British Labour Party, that Japan had showed complete disregard for international law. the spokesman said. wax unnecessary to comment.—Rteuter,
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