Reeognization of Municipal Council Sought But Foreign Pressure Must Be Removed Kobe, May 14.
'APAN is secking a reorganization of the Shanghai Municipal Council along the lines laid down by her fundamental policy for the establishment of a new order in East Asia, Mr, Yoshiaki Miura, Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, was reported to have told Japanese newspapermen here on his val from the Central China port in the N.Y.K. liner Haruna Maru this morning Mr. Miura, who is proceeding to Tokyo to confer with the Foreign Office, continued his eastward journey by tain leaving Sannomita station at 1227 this noon. 7 The Japanese consular official was quoted as having declared that few people in Shanghai denied the neces-Sily or reorganizing the SMC. for the sake of the maintenance of pence and order in the International Settle ment, it being generally admitted that the present system, based upon the Land Regulations, was "a typical an-
To settle the issue regarding the International Settlement in Shanghai fundamentally, Mr. Miura was re ported to have said, it would be no-Cessary to remove the foreign Pressure that is keeping China in the status of a semi-colony.
'Questions requiring' immediate attention, Mr. Miura was stated to have declared, were the revision or the abolition of the Land Regulations, 3 Strict control of anti-Japanese puib-Tications, changes in the status of the Chinese' courts and the prohibition of the display of the Chinese Nation-list "Mag.
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