Editorial fireworks blazed and crackled in the Japanese press yesterday as the Shanghai Municipal Council was made the target of a bristling verbal bombardment, "If international fidelity is nothing but a serap of paper, we will say nothing, but will resort to the power of justice," the "Tairiku Shimpo" declared in referring to the alleged "faithlessness" of Mr. C. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Council, m failing to hand over criminals to the Japanese authorities as promised in a memo-random given last year to Mr. Shinrokure Hidaka, then Japanese Consul-General.
The announcement released to the press last Sunday by the S.M.C. spokesman should be regretted as "an ungentlemanly act," the "Shanghai Mainichi," another Japanese daily, said. If the S.M.C. should feel any "unpleasantness" in the future because of its "faithlessness" the responsibility will be on the S.M.C,, the "Mainichi" stated.
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