To be Anti-Japanese Act "Tairiku Shimpo" Blames Police for Not Stopping Firecracker Barrage During Wednesday's Eclipse large crowd demonstrated on several occasions yesterday shouting anti-German slogans. "Long Live Polish Danzig", they cried, "Long Live Polish Cost Prussia! Down With Hitler."
Murmurs of discontent greeted the passage of two German Embassy cars which carried swastika flags. today inspected the areas bombed yesterday.
The only known foreign casualty is Paul Drossel, a 32-year-old German who is Working for an American firm, the Bolton Bristle Company, of 32 Brenan Road, Shanghai.
He suffered a slight knee injury The Chinese celebration of the lunar eclipse on Wednesday night with barrages of firecrackers was termed "another anti-Japanese demonstration under the guise of superstitious practices" by the "Tairiku Shimpo" yesterday.
The firecrackers were exploded mostly on Honan and Chekiang Roads, which are in the British defence sector. Although it is a Chinese customs to observe the eclipse of the moon that way, firecrackers fired systematically, agitated the people to a great degree, especially when the Settlement question has become as tense as it is now, the Japanese daily commented.
As firecrackers have been strictly forbidden since the start of the hostilities, and even hunting has been controlled in the Shanghai suburbs, the exploding of firecrackers freely and openly in the areas near the Japanese occupied zone was an "intentional anti-Japanese demonstration disguised as the celebration off the lunar eclipse," the Japanese "It is to be taken for granted that an_anti-Japanese organ was behind this, as the racket was very well organized," the paper stated.
"Strangest of all, the S. M. C. completely ignored the Wednesday commotion, which lasted one hour and a half. The S; M. C. cannot escape the charge of failing to exercise adequate control of the people under its jurisdiction.
"The Japanese authorities always have been taking every possible precaution not to disturb the minds of the people. The Japanese Special Landing Party, for instance, invariably notified the S. M. C. of its manceuvres in order to avoid disturbing the public.
"Viewing this incident with regret because the S. M. C regarded this firecracker disturbance with challenge ing insincerity,' the Japanese aut orities have lodged a request with ithe S. M. C. to investigate the matter."
Mr. Chikayuki Akagi, Japanese Special Deputy Commissioner of Police, told a "Tairiku Shimpo" reporter that the S. M. C. should have controlled the disturbance."
All French radio stations will rebroadcast the Diet address to be made tomorrow by Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, whose speech will also be retransmitted in the English language.
The British Ambassador here, Sir William Howard Kennard, was informed of the outline of Col. Beck's speech when he called yesterday on the Foreign Affairs Vice-Minister. Quarters close to the Government declared that the address, expected to last from 11.30 a.m. to about noon, would be delivered in a firm tone but would be drafted in diplomatic style and would not be as sensational as the press predicts—Havas.
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