Canton, May 19.
Japanese authorities were in control of the Kongmoon Maritime Customs office today following a brief procedure at 10 o'clock yesterday morning when Mr. Tadahisa Matsudaira, Japanese vice-consul in Canton, took over the establishment from Mr. E. T. Williams, commissioner.
The transfer was effected in the presence of the commandant of the Japanese garrison of Kongmoon.
The Customs office in this important West River port suspended business following the occupation of the town by Japanese forces lote in March.—Domei.
New York, May 19.
The papers this morning commented with utmost satisfaction at the Anglo-Franco-American intervention in Kulingsu, which they consider the first attempt to stop Japan's efforts io eliminate the Western nations from China.
"Despite all her protests, Japan has proved by her acts that wherever she is in a dominant position she intends to let foreign interests survive only io the extent in which they were favourable to her aims," the "New Times" stated.
"Japan cannot allow herself to treat Western interests too lightly for her exports to the nations principally interested—Great Britain, France, and the United States—Obsorb between one quarter and one third of her total foreign trade," the paper added.
The "N.Y. Herald Tribune" welcomed the action undertaken by U.S. German Bund May Disintegrate New York, May 19.
The disintegration of the German American Bund was forecast today in a report filed with the District Attorney, Mr. Thomas Dewey, charging the Bund and its leader, Mr. Fritz Kuhn, with more than 40 violations of the relief tax laws.
Although the amount of money involved was understood to be small, each of the alleged violations carries a prison sentence of from six months to three years—United Press.
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