"Negotiations over several days, conducted by the International Red Cross Refugee Committee with both Chinese and Japanese authorities, for the formation of a safety area in "Nantao, met success late last night as both Chinese and Japanese signed agreements with the committee.
Although full details were lacking up to going to press, it was understood that the area, which will include that portion of the old walled city of Nantao north of Fong Pang Road, will be in*charge of a body of Special Police. It is believed that the delay in meeting success up to last night was largely due to a disagreement over the policing of the district.
Concerning the scheme, Father R. Jacquinot, S.J, who is the chairman of the committee yesterday issued the following statement:
"As it appears that an explanation is necessary in order to prevent or even dispel any misapprehensions and also to correct erroneous impressions already created by some of the articles which have appeared in the Press on an arrangement devised between the Chinese authorities and myself (as chairman of the International Red Cross Refugee Cormittee), as well as between the Japanese authorities and myself, setting up a district in Nantao as a place of safety for the Chinese population o? non-combatants, 1 would like to offer the following statements:
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