On Februfry 15, the communique said, another request had been made to the Council for the prevention of terrorism, while ip the Japanese defence - sector, strict precautionary measures were taken to forestall untoward incidents.
"However, notwithstanding our earnest efforts and our sincere expectations, several cases of terrorism occurred in the International Settlement south of Soochow Creek on the Lunar New Years Day. Moreover, it was most regrettable that these Cases were ascertained to have a Pat goes without saying that this li tical significance.
precarious state of affairs reflected upon the honour of the International Settlement. In addition, it was a matter which the Japanese authorities could not ignore on humani-Marian grounds, as well as from the standpoint of protecting Japanese lives and property and, also, in relafion to the vast task of establishing a new order in East Asia by means of the mutual assistance of Chinese and. Japanese, The Japanese forces in the feld, seriously concerned with maintenance of peace and order in their occupied territories, also could mot permit this state of affairs to continue unchallenged," the communique said.
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Government.
Their practical effect, it is stated, would be to create immediately an independent State in Palestine, with the Arab majority in complete control. "The procedure suggested by the Arabs is that a Constituent Assembly, consisting both of Arabs and Jews, probably in proportion to the population, would elect a Government to take over immediate contro] of Palestine.
They would draft a scheme for a legislature, in which undoubtedly the Arabs would have a majority.
The Arab delegation proposes that the Constitution should be drafted and adopted in Palestine by the Arabs and the Jews, and then, probably, submitted to the British Government, not for approval or amendment, but in connection with the Anglo-Palestinian Treaty, which, it is hoped, would follow on the formation of an independent Palestine State.
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