In connection with the news of the Japanese demands on the Municipal Council, rather a curious sequence of events may be mentioned. A statement was given out at the Foreign Office, saying that the view held in London was that any concessions which the Council might find it necessary to make must be expressly stipulated as being of a purely temporary nature. The "Daily Telegraph" had already said the same, and the statement naturally caused alarm in China circles—"thin end of the wedge."
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