Local Daily Says Japan Aid Chinese Students Should Mop Up Gunmen Keio University, the oldest institu-Before Negotiations tion of learning in Japan, will soon open a branch school in Shanghai Resort to military mopping-up exclusively for Chinese students. the operations in the International Settle-"Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday. ment from "a purely military neces-Establishment of the branch universsity and from their independent standity will follow the opening of a point" was urged upon the Japanese China Continent Research Institute in military authorities by the "Tairiku Shanghai in the near future, the Shimpo," Japanese daily yesterday as paper said. it continued to focus its editorial spot-Founded in Tokyo by the late Mr light on Shanghai terrorism.
Yukichi Fukuzawa, Keio University Such action is necessary before the has grown to be one the outstanding position of the S.M.C. can be brougint Japanese educational establishments. up for diplomatic consideration, the Intended as a cultural experiment. daily argued, as "the present terthe projected Research Institute will roust activities are part of Kuomin-be housed in the Great China or tang guerilla warfare."
Tabsia University building on Bub-Anti-Japanese terrorism raging bling Well Road, the "Tairiku Tempant in the Settlement can only Shimpo" said. Intermittent expedi-be called "one of the street-campaigns tions into Central China areas will launched by the Kuomintang upon be made in concert with the academic Japan," the daily remarked. "Thus research work of the Institute. Japanese mopping-up operations would Following an experimental period, only be a part of the Japanese strategy the university will formulate plans to open a Shanghai Keio University sons," the journal stated. for Chinese youths. An ambitious case, this question should be settled curriculum is being contemplated by before resorting to diplomatic anc the university authorities, which will political negotiations." include Departments of Economics, Literature, Medicine ind Agricul-A Simple Solution tural.
"From this angle, we have been maintaining, that the Settlement question is more simple and easier of solution than is generally considered," the Japanese daily declared.
Japanese military authorities are entitled to stamp out terrorism at its root by notifying the S.M.C. of their intention to take such steps, the paper asserted. Only after the Settlement is cleared of gunmen by the Japanese military can the reorganization of the S.M.C. administrative machinery c brought into logical political discussions, according to the daily.
Because terrorist activities are of the same nature as' Kuomintang guerilla warfare, and because the S.M.C. authorities "cannot be expected to suppress them with their own hands" the S.M.C. cannot, therefore, hamper Japanese military operations by taking advantage of the "inviolability and neutrality of the Settlement," the Japanese journal continued.
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