'The Japanese demand' for' -the transfer to them of important branches of the administration in Shanghai was characterized to-day by a spokesman of the Chinese Government here as a new breach of treaties.
At the same time the spokesman expressed the Chinese Government's egret at the altitude of the foreign powers represented on the Shanghai Municipal Council, whose pliant attitude was calculated: to encourage Japan to violate the neutrality of the International. Settlement.
The spokesman added that only the: urgency of other business" had up to now prevented the Chinese Government from making official representations on the subject to the owers in question, but that in any case the Chinese Government would Ocean, not forget their attitude ~Trans-
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