Mr. Suemasa Okamoto, the newly appointed Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai and Counsellor of the Embassy in China, arrived here on [May 8 in the s, Nagasaki Maru.
Interviewed by local Japanese newspaper men, Mr. Okamoto said that "although he was a complete stranger to China, he had kept close touch with' the events here during his six-year service with the Gaimusho in Tokyo.
"Treallze." he said, "the tmportance of my tasks here' and my serlous responsibility."
On, May 4, 51 students from the Fuh Tan University handed over to the Customs Club a purse containing $1640 to be used "as part of the medical expenses incurred by those Chinese preventive officers who recently suffered injury while attempt-Ing to enforce Chinese law by Aghting against: the smugglers. Since their determination to. discourage renin activities in Shanghai, says the "Lih Pao," junior officers in the Chinese" Customs service have received 42 letters from Chinese individuals and "organizations supporting their stand, in addition to articles such as pennants, shields and ups with inscriptions praising their service, Many Chinese young men and women consider that the smuggling by the renin has a political backing and that the preventive officers fighting the smugglers are in the same position as those now at the Suiyuan front.
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