The North-China Daily News" was informed yesterday by an S.M.C. official that the question of anti-Japenese propaganda and anti-Japanese outbursts in the press has long been under consideration by Mr. Franklin and the members of the Council, who although not wishing to restrict the freedom of the press, were bound to take action against any newspaper outbursts or propaganda which would cause strife or bad feelings in Shanghai, it was stated. Action against such violent propaganda, whether anti-Japanese or not, would most likely come up for consideration in the immediate future.
Mr. Miura's note follows the deskh by Mr. Fu Siao-en, Mayor of ater Shanghai Special Municipality 0f a protest to M. Baudez, French Consul-General requesting that immediate steps be taken to arrest the assassins of Mr. Wang Hsien-min, former officer of the Municipality administration, who was murdered in the French Concession on April 17.
Also contained in the note was a request that effective and suitable measures be adopted gor the apprehension and control of political terrousts in the French Concession in order to prevent further crimes of a like nature in the future. A demand was also made that the French Convession police authorities should cooperate with the police of the Greater Municipality in searches for political te s in the French Concession.
The note still being considered yesterday by the French authorities: and no reply had been sent to Mi Fu Siao-en, a "North-China Daily ews" reporter informed. Also being studied were previous notes sent by Mayor Fu on February 17 end March 10, it was stated.
86th Division at 230 o'clock early o Sunday morning near Chiashanchitui five kilometres north of Salatsi, east of Paotow, in south. suiyuan, according to belated dispatches react ing here today.
The Chinese abandoned 160 dead during the encounter, the dispatche.
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