Canton, June 16.
The local press, in commenting t day on the Kuramoto affair, is almost unanimously of the opinion that there must be some other and more important motives behind the strange behaviour of the Japanese Vice-Consul than that which he explained.
Oficial newspapers express appre hension of similar recurrences in the future. They suggest that the Nar king Government require all Japanese in Nanking and trading ports to register with the local government and not to go about the city or suburbs unless with a hu chao from the Chinese authorities, in which event they would be given a police escort. Otherwise, the Chinese Government could not be held responsible
episode a complete farce, deploring The "Min Kuo Jih Pao" calls the Tokyo's "much ado about nothing" and also criticizing Nanking for "its timidity and unnecessary panic."—Reuter.
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