R. Goro Uchida, Amoy. May 16.
\panese Consul-General here, today rejected in its entirety a note dated May 13 filed with him by the Kulangsu Municipal Council over the landing of Japanese sailors in the Amoy Int ational Settlement.
Taking up the representations of the Council point by point, Uchida reaffirmed the Japanese view that the lan ing was necessary for the protection of Japanese lives and property in He also declared that the Japanese authorities regarded the fatal attack on Mr. Hung Li Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
-hsun, Chairman of the Amoy as the act of a political terrorist_gang.
The Council in its protest said that it was diMeult to regard the assault on Me. Hung as a terrorist act tunless evidence was produced and filmo expressed doubts of the necessity of the. landing "of Japanese sailors for the protection of Japanese lives and' property in Kulangsu, protest. was "also made against summary searches and arrests Settlement by the Couneit ther expressed "amazed tions along the Settlement shore tine the Japanese forces in hoisting Japanese fags ro ximity to Chinese positions and exchanging fre with Chinese forces there
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