With the Kwangtung troops _entrenched in the city, the spokesman Jdeclared, Amoy was serving as a shelter for anti-Japanese activities "as well as a port the [ammunition flowed into China, giving Amoy great significance in the present hostilities.
It'ls the duty of the Japanese 10 Jaive protection {0 the 30,000 Formos-1ns in the city whom, he alleged have been oppressed and' maltreated by the Chinese.
Mr. Kazuo Okazaki, Japanese Consul-General-at-large, who is at pre~ sent acting as a spokesman for the Embassy here, recalled that he was Jappointed Consul-General in Amoy eight months ago, Asked if he were leaving soon for his post, he laughingly said: "I hope at."
Th confirming the occupation of part of Amoy, afler street fighting, a Japanese naval spokesman last night said the operations were "going on very nicely."
To reach the city, he said, the Ionding party had to cross the island, distance of about ten or twelve Absence of reports on the fire al-Jeged to have been started on May 30 by the Chinese indicated, he said, that the flames had died out.
There were no reports of any shells or bombs falling at Kulangsu, where approximately 250 foreigners and 40,000 Chinese live in the Internation Settlement.
Asked for reasons which impelled the Navy to Jand a force at Amoy, the spokesman said that despite the blockade, Amoy was one of the prin= cipal channels through which arms flowed into China.
While arms are also being imported; through other Fukien ports, they Japanese Warships Off Swatow Hongkong, May 13, Unconfirmed Chinese reports from Amoy state that there is concentration of five Japa~ nese battleships and small craft at Swatow, and that the land~ ing of troops is under way at Namtang Island—Reuter. were said to be less important than: Amoy in this respect.
The Japanese Navy, he declared, was also obliged to provide protec: ton to the 30,000 Formosans in Amoy and to their property.
The city, he asserted, was being garrisoned by Kwangtung provincial troops, who are bitterly anti-Japanese and who have been oppressing the Formosans.
There is very valuable Japanese property in Amoy and Kulangsu, he indicated. This included numerous Formosan households and retail establishments, Formosan property, he claimed, has been damaged, looted, destroyed, occupied and confiscated by the Chi nese troops. Most of the Formosan: he sild, "are in the export-import trade and are also retail merchants,
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