The Archive · 1938

Japanese Army Statement to Clarify Actions

CHINESE PROPERTY SEIZURES

Property of Chinese, "engaging in anti-Jupanese activities" will be seized Feyardless of its location, a Japanese Army "spokesman announced This statement was made in connection with the confirmation by the Japanese spokesman of the sealing of the former private residence of Gon. Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government and former Mayor of Greater. Shanghat, Differentiating between seizure. and confiscation, the spokesman declared that the property of Chinese engaging anti-Japanese acts would be placed under the "control of the Japanese Questioned as 10 whether or not property of such Chinese in the International "Settlement or the rench Concession was liable to seizure by Japanese, the spokesman declared that in his belief neither the Settlement nor the Concession auth: ferities could "intervene" in matters regarding ownership of property.

Japanese notion in this direction, however, would be taken "in the ight of the relations between the Japanese and the Settlement or Concession authorities."

The Japanese military authorities, "us a matter of principle," will not recognize mortgages or lletis on Chinese property. type while they wore isolated from the rest of the Japanese squadron.

They crashed ito the ground after colliding with Chinese planes, - the "Shanghai Mainichi" stated.

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