Both Sides Urged to Keep War Away Shanghai, Aug 11.
The withdrawal of the Peace Preservation Corps and the dismantling of all military defence, works In and around the Shanghai area were asked by the Japanese during two separate interviews held between Mr, S, Okamoto, the Japanese Consul-General and' Mr, '0. Yui, the Mayor of Shanghni, and Lieltenant-Commander Okino, the Japanese Naval Attache, and General Yang Gu, Shanghai and Woosung Garrison' "Commander, yesterday. afternoon, No formal' demand. of ultimatum has been presented, At the interview "Mr. Yul said that, on the night of the incident units of the corps had been already withdrawn from. the neighbourhood of Japanese residential districts and that the defences had already been taken away as a reassurance to the
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