Jacquinot, $.J., who is the chairman of the committee yesterday issued the following statement:
"As it appears that an explanation fs necessary in order to prevent or even dispel any _misapprohensions and also' to correct erroneous pressions already created by some of the articles which have appeared in the Press on an arrangement devised between the Chinese authorities and myself (as chairman of the Inter. ational Red Cross Refugee Committee), as well as between the Japanese authorities and myself, Setting up a district in Nantao as a place of safely for the Chinese Population of non-combatants, would like to offer the following statements:
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