Shanghai, Nov. 20.
"Military necessity" remained wramount factor in determining the attitude of the Japanese military and naval authorities regarding Yangtze navigation, Japanese military. naval Jand diplomatic spokesmen in' Shanghai emphasized yesterday as the question of allowing foreign mer-[chant men to proceed up the river was again aired at a press con-
The possibility that foreign merjchantmen, if permitted to use the Fiver, would engage in trading with guerillas and other Chinese, oppo ing the Japanese forces, was cited by the military spokesman additional deterrent to the Japanese to reopen the Yangtze to commercial vessels owned and operaed by third party nationals.
Such activities, the spokesman said, could easily lead 10 "serious com: plications" which the Japanese Suthorities were secking to avoid,
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