Acting French Consul-General, totd a "North-China Daily News" reporter that the French troops occupied the area in question at a time of great emergency, solely to preserve peace and order' in the Concession and its immediate neighbourhood. "These stops," he added, "helped considerably preserve peace and restore confdence among. the "residents of this area."
Iegat interpretation of- the question and. were unwilling to reply to the they thus showed their complete inability to grasp the existing situa tion," the Japanese interviewed by the "Mainichi" was quoted as having said" The French authorities are Tegitimately entitled "to ignore the trotest of the "Reformed, Govern~ ment." "Any consequences that may' develop out of this French altitude, based upon cheap—sentimentality' Will have to be solved between the Reformed Government" and the:
French.
"The French attitude, however, cannot pass unnoticed by Japanese foMlelal quarters in view of the indisputable existence of the formed Government as an adminisative organ in Central China and a political factor effectively {unc Uoning, in close ce-operation with the Japanese Army, for the cause of peace in East Asia and as a bulwark. against Communism."
'A fallacy was committed by Mr. 'Auge In his views because he failed to realize the changes that the present hostilities had brought about {nthe matter of sovereignty rds the French Concession, tne high personage" was reported' to have said.
"Assuming that the defence mei sures taken by the French authorities were correct, they would be fof no avail. On the contrary, they tended to increase unrest among the populace for the true danger to peace in the Concession lurks with-In the Concession itself. I refer
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