Amoy, May 23.
Reconsideration by the Kulangsu Municipal Council of its virtual rejection of five Japanese demands, presented on May 13, was asked in a note yesterday by Mr. Goro Uchida, Japanese Consul-General here, Domei learned today.
The Japanese official renewed his demands for increases in the Japanese personnel of the Council, the suppression of anti-Japanese activities, and the granting of a voting franchise to Japanese subjects of Formosan extraction.
Mr. Uchida was understood to have declared that the Kulangsu International Settlement was assuming "a dangerous character" by serving as a base for hostile acts against Japanese-Occupied Amoy and as a "hotbed" of anti-Japanese intrigue.
Asserting that the maintenance of peace and good order in Kulangsu was of transcendent importance to Amoy, because of the proximity of the Settlement to the city, the Japanese official was reported to have said that a reform of the functions and of the personnel of the Kulangsu Municipal Council wes an "urgent necessity" in order to maintain "the vital interests of Kulangsu."
Mr. Uchida further held as insuffcient the appointment of twelve Japanese to.the Council's police force and insisted that Japanese subjects of Formosan extraction should be granted a voting franchise. This, he contended, would not contravene the Land Regulations—Domei.
Tokyo Concerned Tokyo, May 23.
Japanese official circles today viewed with mounting concern the situation} in Kulangsu, island on which the International Settlement of Amoy is located, where anti-Japanese agitation was reported to have become increasingly evident.
The cause for this worsening of the situation was attributed to the presence of British, French, and America landing parties, which had the effect of leading Chinese to assume an openly truculent attitude towards the Japanese, whom they seem to regard as having been checkmated by the action of the Powers.
This, reports reaching here said, was affecting Chinese who hitherto had shown pro-Japanese leanings—Domei.
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