'Tokyo, May 15, Flat rejection by Japan of the representations made' last week by Britain, France and the United States against the Japanese serial attacks On Chungking was expected in local well-informed circles today.
The rejection, they said, would be based _on three points. These were:
That Chungking, the seat of the Kuomintang Government, was not an "open" town as claimed but was de~ fended against air attacks by at least 12 anti-aircraft machine guns as ported by the American United Prest dispatch dated Chungking May 1.
'2. "That any damage sustained by foreign consulates in Chungking 3s result of the Japanese aircraft had fo return the fire directed at them from Chinese batlones mounted near foreign consular buildings to silence hem.
3. That_the foreign governments should demand that the Kuomintang authorities remove Chinese military establishments from the vicinity of foreign property in order to avoid damage that Is "often concomitant 10
"The Foreign Office spokesman today admitted in reply to questions by foreign correspondents that the am= bassadors of the three Powers had filed representations with Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, over the recent aerial attacks upon Chungking. The representations, he said, were along parallel lines but did not constitute protests—Do Japanese Clamp Down on "Exchange Racket"
Tokyo, May 9.
In, an effort to end the so-called exchange racket," whereby persons in Japan coming into possession of foreign currencies, cheques and. money-orders take them to China for conversion into yen at rates almost twice as high as the "pened Fate in Japan,—Japanese police officials are intensifying their efforts fo apprehend foreigners and others suspected of taking advantage of the situation, according to the "Asahi Shimbun."
The Tokyo Police Board reveals the detention for more than two weeks of two Belgian nationals and the questioning of three foreign missionaries, in search of information regarding such matters, Although the amounts involved have not been revealed, the poli state that many persons receiving, payments from abroad are _"com= muting" between Japan and Shanghai to cash their cheques, and those of friends, at the attractive yen-rate prevailing there, despite warnings And the subsequent imposition of
making it practically impossible to id_currency control regulations obtain American dollars, sterling or franes in Japan for the purpose.
'The restrictions were tightened further when the Japanese Ministry fof Finance "advised™ banks and travel agencies to refuse foreign currency and travellers' cheques to persons intending to visit Shanghai.
Recently, the Tokyo police arrested Father Raphael Collard, 38-year-old Catholic missionary on floating the new' exchange regulations, and two days later took into custody Baron Marcel Baeyens, 70- years-old Belgian correspondent of the Paris newspaper "Figaro," who had just returned" from Shanghai Both have been questioned exten ly since, it was revesled.—Reu-
French Ore for Is 'Tokyo, May 11. French an horities in' Indo-China the Japanese Consulate at Hanoi yesterday that ore [shipments up to 10,000 tons would be Permilted to Japan for the present [Japanese reports said today.
The reports said the French authories had not yet decided what policy to adopt after the 10,000-ton quota is Jexhausted. Japanese crieies predicted that further shipments would be permitted under certain restrictions United Press.
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