Washington, May 18. THE United States yesterday formally rejected Japan's request for a re sion of the Land Regulations the International Settlement at Shanghai, The American note, delivered in Tokyo by Mr, Joseph Grew, American Ambassador, said the question could not be considered pending the "development of more stable condition:
The note added the belief that no satisfactory agreement regarding the International Settlement at Shanghai could be reached between the United States and Japan at this time because of abnormal conditions resulting from the Japanese military invasion of China.
The American note not only warned Japan against "taking ad-Vantage of. developments which originated elsewhere and are pre Judicing the international character of the Shanghat Settlement" but Urged Japan to return Setilement areas north of Soochow Creek to the authority of the Shanghai Muni "the United States would be ready, as in the past, to become party to friendly and orderly negotia-ons, properly instituted, regarding any heeded revision of the Shanghai Land Regulation "The United Siates is constrained to point out, however, that condi ons in Shanghai, from its views point, "are so. far from normal at present that there is totally lacking any basis for a. discussion looking towards an orderly settlement of the complicated problems involved which Would be reasonably fair to all concerned."
"The note said that efforts of International Settlement authorities perform their normal functions "to cently have been seriously handi coopped and made dificult by law= less activities in areas contiguous to the International Settlement and by the refusal on the part of the Japanese military authorities to return the trea north of Soochow Creek to the fifective control of the Settlement authorities,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.