Gaimusho Spokesman Outline 27 and °37 Differences Tokyo, Aug. 16.
Britain alone asked the Japanese Go ernment to exclude Shanghai from th zone of Sino-Japanese hostilities, Domei learned to-day from authoritative sources. No Amierican. representations to this effect have yet been received by the Foreign Office.
Mr, J. 0, Dodds, British Charge D'Affaires here, has asked the Foreign Minister Mr, Koki Hirota, before the dropping of Chinese bombs on the International Settlement to neutralize the Shanghai evea and not to turn the Settlement into a base of Japanese military operations.
spokesman of the Foreign Office, comi outing to: British ye said thi ntly neces:
for the Japanese landing party in nghai to take vigorous measures for the protection of the 30,000 Japansidents now exposed to Chinese attacks. eked the Shanghai, Municipal _Coune offices in 1927, when the British police force to repulse Chinese attacks, If the Chinese mobs were stronger," the official declared, "the British authorities. might have been compelled to use military force and the difference between the incidents of 1927 and 1937 was only in the intensity and scale of Chinese attacks. jar' troops, the spokes: man further recalled, attacked the British Settlement in Canton and injured rge number of Japanese residents Imt_no question of responsibility for the casualties or damage arose in either Domei,
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