Japanese Demand Control Of All Important Organs of the Municipal Council Shanghai, Jan. 5. GHANGHArS International Settlement was yesterday faced with one of the most serious crises of its history when a warning that the Japanese Expeditionary Force may be compelled to take steps, as occasion requires, to ferret out anti-Japanese elements in the Settlement was served on the Municipal Council.
Four high Japanese officials, representing the army, navy and the Foreign Office, called on Mr, C,-S, Franklin, chairman of the 'S.M.C, The officials were Mr. Suemasa Okamoto, Consul-General, Colonel Sanetaka Kusumoto, representing General Iwane Matsui, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Force, Captain Risaburo Fujita, representing Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hase~ gawa, and Mr, Noritake Yoshioka, senior Japanese consul. For the S.M.C., Mr, Harold Porter, vice-chairman, Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Secretary-General, and Mr. Godfrey Phillips, secretary, were present, 'Mr, Okamoto"told Mr, Franklin that the Japanese authorities regarded the recurrence of anti-Japanese incidents as the result of the inetticacy of the Council' efforts to suppress anti-Japanese elements.
The Japanese Expeditionary Force, Mr. Okamoto said, is constrained to feel that the Mubleipal authorities Jack earnestness or ability to meet the Japanese demand for the suppress fion of subversive elements, The Japanese Expeditionary Force, the demarene emphasized, may forced to extirpate tne antleJapanese
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