Some foreigners. in Shangh: AMlura said, were of the opinion that would be legal to change the Land. Regulations without sent of the Kuomintang Gov although they have admitted ced for a larger Japanese voice in the. Municipal Council.
"The question of a revision of the Land Regulations should be solved between. the Reformed Government in Nanking and the Consular Body Ju. Shanghai, Foreign fears that Japan would resort to force to settle the question in her favour were also reportedly mentioned by Mr, Miura, 'A settlement of the court issue in the French Concession was believed, by Mr. Miura to be simpler than a solution of the same question in the International Settlement because of the difference in status of the two {oreign-controlled areas—Domel, Yangtze Kept Shut To Merchants Tokyo, May 11.
No ordinary merchant vessel "is permitted to sail in the Yangtze River, where only Japanese military transports ply for the purpose of ceartying provisions and ammunition to Japanese forces," declared Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, spokesman of the Admiralty, at his weekly conference here today.
There are one million Japanese troops operating in Central China, namely, on the north and south banks fof the Yangtze River, according to the naval spokesman. ' These troops, he declared, are entirely dependent fon the Yangtze River, which forms their only line of communteation, This explains, he says, the conges-Vion of the Yangtze "River with Japanese transport. "IL is mot easy task 10 feed, clothe and supply ammunition to one million troops,"
declared,
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